| Summary: | "Apart from visiting commentators such as the Americans Emerson and Edgar Allan Poe and the German Count von Puckler-Muskau, the writers featured here include Henry Mayhew (on the London poor), Elizabeth Gaskell and Engels (on industrial life and conditions), William Cobbett, Francis Kilvert and Thomas Hardy (on rural life), Trollope (on church life), Huxley and Darwin (on science and evolution), Ruskin and Walter Pater (on art and culture), and, of course, T̀he Inimitable', Dickens himself. The volume also includes contemporary illustrations, verse (ballads, popular songs, poems) and concise introductory material." "An intriguing miscellany of some of the best, wittiest and most unusual Victorian writing, Dickens's England brings to life, through these writers' careful observations and shrewd judgements, the variety, energy and the frequently harsh reality of the society that produced and inspired one of England's greatest authors."--BOOK JACKET.
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