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Walking Fast and Far: Dickens, Europe, and Restless Pedestrianism
This post has been contributed by Edward Grimble. Writing to his friend—and later biographer—John Forster in 1854, Dickens confessed that ‘if I couldn’t walk fast and far, I should just explode and perish’ (Letters, vol 7, 429). Throughout his life Dickens remained a dizzyingly energetic...
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