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Excerpt from Barnaby Rudge, Vol. 1 of 2: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty
Barnaby Rudge, which followed on The Old Cun'osily Shop, in the weekly numbers of Master Humphrey: Clock, had long been a. Kind of ghost haunting Dickens. Mr. Ketton observes that Barnaby, or some foreshadowing of Barnaby, had been announced by Macrone, the publisher of Sketches by Has Dickens had sold the Sketches to Macrone for a small sum, when he needed money, at the time of his marriage. Then, with Pickwick, Dickens went up like a rocket, and Macrone prepared to me-issue the Sketches in monthly numbers, in the same form as the Pickwick Papers, still running. As Dickens was actually at work on Oliver Twist, for Bentley's Misce?any, his name would thus appear on three serial publications at once, an alarming and cheapeno ing out-put. Through Mr. Forster Dickens tried to buy back the Sketches. Macrone demanded 2000. Chapman and Hall paid the money, or half of it we should purchase the copyright between and determined themselves to issue the Sketches in monthly parts. Such was the unhappy consequenw of resorting to a small and needy publisher. Macrone's gains did not prosper with him. He died poor, and in two years Dickens was generously exerting himself for the widow and children. Of course, Meerane was wellvi introduction.
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