Harper's New Monthly Magazine

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"Editor's Easy Chair"
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
June 1864 (p. 135)

[Alfred Hudson Guernsey]

Harper's began serializing Our Mutual Friend in the June 1864 edition of Harper's. The first installment included the first four chapters of the novel (identical to the British serials), and was accompanied by a deceptively younger portrait of the aging Dickens. Guernsey published the first American review of Our Mutual Friend in his monthly column, "Editor's Easy Chair."

Title page of the
June 1864 issue of Harper's
Portrait of Dickens which
accompanied the first installment
The review as it appeared
in the "Editor's Easy Chair"

Title page of the June 1864 issue of Harper's Portrait of Dickens which accompanied the first installment The review as it appeared in the "Editor's Easy Chair"

Title page of the
June 1864 issue of Harper's
Portrait of Dickens which
accompanied the first installment
The review as it appeared
in the "Editor's Easy Chair"