Evidently he was already thinking of their successor, and clearly he recognized that Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, ex-cabinet minister and pillar of the literary establishment, would be a real catch. The magazine's current serial, Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, was nearing completion, Charles Lever's A Day's Ride was waiting to take over from it, and Dickens himself was beginning to contemplate a new novel which, as Great Expectations, was subsequently issued between December 1860 and August 1861. The inquiry was speculative, but prompted by characteristic editorial foresight. ![]() On AugDickens wrote to his friend Bulwer Lytton asking whether he might be prepared to contribute “a tale” to All the Year Round.
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