Acting with his friends and his children during the summer of 1857 in the Mr. Wilkie Collins' production The Frozen Deep, the first feeling occurred to Charles Dickens for a second historical novel. Such a tale was then a fancy, and the sadness and trouble of the winter of the year were not favorable to it. Toward the close of January 1858, talking of declining living conditions, it was again in his thoughts: Growing inclinations of a …showed first 75 words of 2121 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2121 total…there even two, with a channel between them, and a tale for a bridge. ____________________ WORKS CITED 1 - Personal journal excerpt of 29 Jan. of 1858. Charles Dickens: A Biography, 1939: Harper Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A. 2 - Personal correspondence to Mr. A R. Lawrence, esq., of 21 Mar. of 1858. Charles Dickens: A Biography, 1939: Harper Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A. 3 - Personal journal excerpt of 30 July of 1857. Charles Dickens: A Biography, 1939: Harper Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.