The Dickensian – Michael Slater, biographer of Dickens July 10, 2018

The Dickensian – Michael Slater, biographer of Dickens The Dickensian Dickensians will be happy to have a published version of this notable forerunner of The Frozen Deep. Collins’s The Lighthouse is a two-act melodrama in the performance of which audiences were electrified by what Carlyle called Dickens’s ‘wild picturesqueness’ in the role of the guilt-haunted lighthouse keeper, Aaron Gurnock, in three private performances at Tavistock House and a public one for charity at Campden House.…