In the last ten years of his life Charles Dickens related to his adoring public in a number of different ways; as novelist, as journalist, as public speaker, and in public readings of his own work.
This lecture explores the contrast between the public image and the private life, considering what his writings reveal to us about his deepest preoccupations, both as man and as artist, during this period.
Professor Michael Slater MBE is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of London, having been at Birkbeck until his retirement from teaching in 2001.
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