me amused through the toils of chapter-drafting with her interest in what
was brewing in the Dickens vat. My brothers Peter and Tom Bodenheimer,
unstoppable walkers and writers in their different fields, were often in my
mind as I wrote the last chapter. What my husband and colleague Andrew
Von Hendy gave to me during the whole process can hardly be measured
in words.
Brief sections of chapters 2, 3, and 4 appeared in earlier forms in Dick-
ens Studies Annual 30 (2002): 159–74, Victorian Studies 48.2 (2006): 268–76,
and Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies (2006), ed. John Bowen and
Robert L. Patten, 48–68. I thank AMS Press, Indiana University Press, and
Palgrave Macmillan for permission to use this material.
viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS