Disappearance of the Pet Names: Dull Domesticity: Tragedy of the Two Doras World Copyright Reserved In the later years of their married life Dickens had less occasion to welte to is wife, and his letters were generally very long. 'The two were part only when' holidays took one or the other away, or when Dickens was visiting some provincial town to speak in public or take his part the famous amateur theatrical performances.
As a rule his letters at euch times overflow with details of journeys, descriptions of foreign places, fatd references to friends he has met Too often, from the public standpoint of almost a century afterwards, they are matter-of-fact eommunica~ tions, domestically dull.
Pet names have disappeared. Mrs.
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