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Michael Slater is emeritus professor of Victorian literature at Birkbeck College, University of London; past president of the International Dickens Fellowship and of the Dickens Society of America; and author of Charles Dickens, and The Great Charles Dickens Scandal, both published by Yale University Press. He lives in London.

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The Great Dickens Scandal

Bleak House

<p>The author of a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Great-Charles-Dickens-Scandal/dp/030011219X/">new biography</a> chronicles how the writer’s affair with a much younger actress was revealed to the world only after the death of Dickens’s last surviving child.</p>

Michael Slater | Published Nov 08, 2012

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