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Dickens aged 46 in 1858, shortly after completing Little Dorrit |
Critical opinion on the value of Dickens's novels has shifted significantly between his time and the present. The enormous success of his first work, Pickwick Papers, set a pattern in which his most admired novels were those which seemed to contemporaries to operate within a mode of celebratory comedy. This is not to say that Dickens's first readers did not appreciate the elements of satire and …
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