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Charles Dickens was 'outraged' by cheap parodies which made Victorian publisher a fortune

 

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Charles Dickens was "outraged" by cheap parodies of his novels which made a Victorian publisher a fortune, a new book reveals.

 

With titles such as "Oliver Twiss", "Nickelas Nickelbery" and "The Penny Pickwick", the books were produced by Edward Lloyd to cash in on Dickens's soaring popularity in the 19th Century.

 

He was sued by Dickens for "fraudulent imitation", but the case failed and there were no laws to stop him selling the knockoffs until The Copyright Act of 1842. 

 

A new book called Edward Lloyd and His World: Popular Fiction, Politics and the Press in Victorian Britain explores Lloyd's influence on Victorian Britain. 

 

Full Story: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/23/charlesdickens-outraged-cheap-parodies-made-victorian-publisher/

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