Monday, December 23, 2013

Charles Dickens in Chancery

E.T. Jacques.  Charles Dickens in Chancery: Being an Account of his Proceedings in Respect of the "Christmas Carol" with Some Gossip in Relation to the Old Law Courts at Westminster (Longmans, Green and Co., 1914). 

An account of Dickens' successful lawsuit against publishers who copied and sold A Christmas Carol (retitled as "A Christmas Ghost Story") without permission.  The appendix includes the original pleadings as well as newspaper articles relating to the case.