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Douglas Jerrold, 1803-1857.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
Michael Slater. Douglas Jerrold, 1803-1857. Dulles, Va.: International Publishers Marketing. 2002. Pp. xii, 340. $35.00. ISBN 0-7156-2824-0.
Michael Slater has rescued Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857) from obscurity. In this scholarly labor of love, Slater has gracefully explained in considerable detail Jerrold's mid-Victorian celebrity and the rapid decline of his reputation. In the process the reader learns how a talented, radical journalist and playwright flourished in London between 1820 and 1857. More important, Slater, the renowned Dickens scholar, effectively paints the social texture of mid-Victorian popular journalism and the theater, and not incidentally, portrays the vagaries of life among the denizens of mid-century London's Grub Street.
When he died in 1857 Jerrold, Dickens, and Thackeray were "the supreme triad of English …
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...Black Eyed Susan (1829), a nautical melodrama by Douglas Jerrold, admired friend of Thackeray and Dickens, whose satirical...routines crisply performed by a fine cast. Whether Jerrold and the likes of Hannah Cowley, Thomas Holcroft and...
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...made as big a splash on their first appearance as Douglas Jerrold's Mrs. Caudle," a shrew who inflicted her nightly...the day on her hapless husband, Job (38). Much to Jerrold's surprise, the series became a sensation and "set...
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