Released on: 31, December 1969
, Author: Rosemary McKittrick
, Audience: Internet related
Santa Fe, June 15, 2008 -- The man who encouraged CharlesDickens to be brave, true and consistent in his early writing career was closefriend and fellow author William Harrison Ainsworth.
The name Ainsworth may seem unfamiliar now. But, in the early-19th centuryAinsworth was a popular writer, especially of fiction for boys.
Dickens and Ainsworth met in 1834 when Dickens was working as a reporter for the Morning Chronicle . Ainsworth was seven years older and introduced Dickens to hiscircle of friends including journalists, publishers, authors and artists.
These were the people who would make Dickens a household name.
Through Ainsworth the struggling writer met his publishers John Macrone, publisherof his first book Sketches by Boz and Richard Bentley. Dickens also met hisfuture biographer John Forster and also George Cruikshank, the artist whoillustrated Oliver Twist .
Beginning in 1836 and continuing for four years Forster, Dickens, and Ainsworth haddinner together regularly. Ainsworth often hosted the men at Kensal Lodge.
It was this camaraderie that helped make each of their writings stronger. Eventhough his own writing was being overshadowed by the young Dickens, Ainsworth calledit one of the happiest times in his life.
Understanding the bond the men shared, it s no surprise that a first edition copy of Oliver Twist (the tale of a young orphan making his way among thieves in19th-century London) in a presentation binding dedicated to Ainsworth from Dickenswould set a world record price for Dickens at auction. The book brought $229,000.
The William E. Self Family Collection: The Kenyon Starling Library of CharlesDickens sold on April 2, at Christies in New York.
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