Autor: John Forster

John Forster was more than Charles Dickens’ biographer, he was also his friend. They met while working as journalists for the True Sun, and it’s no doubt that the two would have been friends. Like Dickens, Forster was a lover of literature and had a kind heart. When Forster died in 1876 he willed more than eighteen thousand books to the South Kensington Museum. In this collection are not only letters of correspondence between Dickens and Forster but also original Dickens manuscripts and page proofs that Forster had inherited six years earlier when Dickens passed away.