Pickwick Monthly No. 3, Chs 6-8 A Convict, a Cricket Match, and the Course of True Love

Описание: Pickwick Papers No. 3
Chapter 6: An old-fashioned Card-party—The Clergyman’s verses—The Story of the Convict’s Return
Chapter 7: How Mr. Winkle, instead of shooting at the Pigeon and killing the Crow, shot at the Crow and wounded the Pigeon; how the Dingley Dell Cricket Club played All-Muggleton, and how All-Muggleton dined at the Dingley Dell Expense; with other interesting and instructive Matters
Chapter 8: Strongly illustrative of the Position, that the Course of True Love is not a Railway

Edward G. Pettit with cohost, James Armstrong
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In this episode, we get another tale, this one a sentimental affair about a convict’s return home, a cricket match (and the drunken dinner that follows) featuring the return of the Stranger in the green coat (who will finally be named!), and the Fat Boy spies on a certain Pickwickian snuggled up with someone in the Wardles’ garden. We’ll also discuss the new illustrator, Robert W. Buss, whose work was featured in only the first printings of this issue.

The third number of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club was published at the end of May 1836. With the death of Robert Seymour, a new plan for each issue was put in place: the narrative would increase from 24 pages to a new 32 pages and the illustrations would decrease from four per issue to just two. Robert W. Buss was hired as illustrator, but neither Dickens nor the publishers were pleased with his work, so in future printings they replaced Buss’ plates with new ones from their next illustrator, Phiz. We’ll learn about Phiz in No. 4’s episode.

You can see Buss’ original plates at the Victorian Web here:
The Cricket Match by R.W. Buss
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The Arbour Scene by R.W. Buss
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Phiz’ replacement illustrations are at The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery here:
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The Fat Boy Awake by Phiz (replacing the “Arbour Scene”)
Wardle and his Friends Under the Influence of 'the Salmon' by Phiz (replacing the “Cricket Match”)

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