Bleak House
The author of a new biography chronicles how the writer’s affair with a much younger actress was revealed to the world only after the death of Dickens’s last surviving child.
Michael Slater is emeritus professor of Victorian literature at Birkbeck College, University of London; past president of the International Dickens Fellowship and of the Dickens Society of America; and author of Charles Dickens, and The Great Charles Dickens Scandal, both published by Yale University Press. He lives in London.