By October, Dickens was discussing advertisements for the new novel with his publishers Bradbury and Evans, though no notice appeared until February 14, 1852, just two weeks before the first installment was published (Slater 337). BH.II.L2).ĭickens began composition of Bleak House in late 1851, but the first hints of the novel date back to February when he mentions to Mary Boyle “the first shadows of a new story hovering in a ghostly way about me (as they usually begin to do, when I have finished an old one)” (Letters 6.298). Individual editorial annotations are written by Adam Grener and can be cited by annotation number as displayed at the beginning of an annotation (e.g. “Bleak House Working Notes,” transcribed and edited by Adam Grener and Isabel Parker. The Working Note transcriptions for Bleak House (MLA): Dickens, Charles. “The Working Notes for Bleak House: Critical Introduction.” Digital Dickens Notes Project. Critical Introduction (MLA): Grener, Adam.
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