‘Town Talk: Dickens, Thackeray and the Policing of Gossip’, The Punch

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Thackeray and Dickens, all the world over . . . There is a Dickens faction, and there is a Thackeray faction; and there is no debate more common, wherever literary talk goes on, than the debate as to the respective merits of Dickens and Thackeray.4

‘Town Talk: Dickens, Thackeray and the Policing of Gossip’, The Punch Brotherhood: Table Talk and Print Culture in Mid-Victorian London, London: British Library, pp. 79—109

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