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Sketches of Young Gentlemen and Young Couples: With Sketches of Young Ladies by Edward Caswall

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Praised by acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin as "young Dickens at his most playful," this delightful volume showcases two collections of little-known sketches by Dickens, charmingly illustrated by Phiz. Whimsical, satirical, witty and exuberant, the sketches ridicule the behavior of their subjects with perfect comic effect, offering fascinating evidence of a writer learning his craft and refining his style. In his Introduction, Dickens scholar Paul Schlicke discusses the popularity of the sketch mode, and the special qualities of these examples. This unique edition includes Edward Caswall's Sketches of Young Ladies, whose success prompted Dickens to write his own sketches.

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ISBN-13:	9780199603282
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/01/2012
Series:	Oxford World's Classics Series
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Paul Schlicke is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen.

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington

IntroductionSketches of Young LadiesThe Young Lady who SingsThe Busy Young LadyThe Romantic Young LadyThe Evangelical Young LadyThe Matter-of-Fact Young LadyThe Plain Young LadyThe Literary Young LadyThe Manly Young LadyThe Young Lady who is EngagedThe Stupid Young LadyThe Interesting Young LadyThe Petting Young LadyThe Natural Historian Young LadyThe Indirect Young LadyThe Hyperbolical Young LadyThe Whimsical Young LadyThe Abstemious Young LadyThe Sincere Young LadyThe Affirmative Young LadyThe Clever Young LadyThe Mysterious Young LadyThe Extremely Natural Young LadyThe Lazy Young LadyThe Young Lady from SchoolConclusionSketches of Young GentlemenThe Bashful Young GentlemanThe Out-and-Out Young GentlemanThe Very Friendly Young GentlemanThe Military Young GentlemanThe Political Young GentlemanThe Domestic Young GentlemanThe Censorious Young GentlemanThe Funny Young GentlemanThe Theatrical Young GentlemanThe Poetical Young GentlemanThe "Throwing-off" Young GentlemanThe Young Ladies' Young GentlemanConclusionSketches of Young CouplesThe Young CoupleThe Formal CoupleThe Loving CoupleThe Contradictory CoupleThe Couple who Dote upon their ChildrenThe Cool CoupleThe Plausible CoupleThe Nice Little CoupleThe Egotistical CoupleThe Couple who Coddle themselvesThe Old CoupleConclusion

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Editorial Reviews

"By presenting these little-known Dickens sketches in the company of the work that preceded and partially inspired them, Paul Schlicke recovers their contemporary literary milieu and allows us to see them as more than mere harbingers of future greatness. It would be difficult to find a better qualified editor for this work." —Review 19
"The young Dickens at his most playful, writing anonymously and slyly observant of the manners and morals of the 1830s, when he was himself a young gentleman and one member of a young couple. Paul Schlicke's delightful edition includes the original Phiz illustrations." —Claire Tomalin, author of Charles Dickens: A Life
"So little known they qualify as 'new Dickens,' and as hugely enjoyable socio-comic writing from his most exuberant phase. Paul Schlicke is to be thanked for bringing them to our attention in his handsomely embellished volume." —John Sutherland, author of How Literature Works
"I've loved reading the Sketches - a delicious and illuminating part of the vast hidden forest of unknown Dickens, enchanting and surprising, and beautifully introduced by Dr Schlicke." —Simon Callow
"A taxonomy of archetypes that is at once amusingly outdated and surprisingly timely. Though its blend of humor and astute cultural observation captures a bygone era beautifully, its tease-points could easily apply to today's crop of hipsters, techies, and other social performative roles we all don." — Brain Pickings
"Interesting and fun to read. This inexpensive volume will lead many readers to a slightly more detailed picture of Dickens's earliest years as a writer." —Dickens Quarterly
"An especially welcome addition to the list of this year's dickens publications." —Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century

From the Publisher

While The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist were overlapping each other in serial publication, the book Sketches of Young Gentlemen (1838) came out, followed later by Sketches of Young Couples (1840). Dickens's authorship was only revealed after his death. They were commissioned by publishers Chapman and Hall to follow the success of Sketches of Young Ladies, by Quiz (a less-gifted author named Edward Caswall). Since Caswall's collection began it all, it is included here. The Dickens sketches, averaging about five pages in length, are fun to read on their own terms and renew our appreciation of the sketch form by which Dickens moved so inimitably from nonfiction to fiction, and they still resonate today (e.g., "The Political Young Gentleman," who "will declaim by the hour…not that he has any particular information on the subject," and "The Couple who Dote upon their Children," who "recognize no dates but those connected with their births, accidents, illnesses, or remarkable deeds"). VERDICT Recommended to lovers of early Dickens and Dickens completists.

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