Infelicia

Notes

In verse. “Judith”: pp. 20-23; “Hear, 0 Israel! (From the Hebrew)”: pp. 82-86. Dedicated to Charles Dickens. The 124 p. ed. includes a facsimile of a holograph note by Dickens accepting the book’s dedication when Infelicia was published earlier in London (1868). For the story of the published note being a disingenuous composite of two different notes sent by Dickens to Menken, see Allen Lesser, Enchanting Rebel: The Secret of Adah Isaacs Menken (New York, c1947), pp. 212-13. An edition with 126 p. was also published by Lippincott in 1868. Lippincott’s collectible 1888 ed. is the only illustrated one that has plates as well as the new unsigned "Introduction" (xiv p.).