"Turning the Tables on My Mistress" by Harry Furniss — illustration for

Chapter 1, "Leaving It Till Called For" in Somebody's Luggage in "Christmas Stories" (1910) (original) (raw)

Turning the Tables on My Mistress

Harry Furniss

1910

13.5 x 9 cm vignetted

Dickens's Christmas Stories, Vol. 16 of Charles Dickens Library Edition, facing page 368.

The 1862 Christmas story Somebody's Luggageat ten parts was the longest of its bretheren to date; while Dickens contributed the four chapters reprinted in the 1910 Charles Dickens Library Edition and the 1868 Illustrated Library Edition. [Commentary continued below.]

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