Mrs Lirriper

xii, 258, [4]pp.  Laminated, illustrated stiff card covers with French flaps.  8vo.  A little gentle edge wear to card covers else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  

First published in 1853-54 as Christmas Specials to the periodical  ‘All the Year Round’, Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgings and Mrs Lirriper’s Legacy, are published here for the first time in a single volume in over a century, complete with the contributions made by Elizabeth Gaskell and others of Dickens’ contemporary writers,  With a critical foreword by Philip Hensher, journalist and critics and author of Other Lulus, Kitchen Venom, etc.