He ate peas with a knife
John Sutherland: Douglas Jerrold, 3 April 2003
Douglas Jerrold: 1803-57
by Michael Slater.
Duckworth, 340 pp., £25, September 2002,0 7156 2824 0 Show More
by Michael Slater.
Duckworth, 340 pp., £25, September 2002,
“... The tenth and central chapter of Michael Slater’s biography is entitled ‘Jerrold, Dickens, Thackeray’. This, as Slater reminds us (often), is the company his contemporaries expected Douglas Jerrold to keep. Some partisans might even have thought Slater right to put him first ... ”