Contemporary Reviews

Harper's New Monthly Magazine

June 1864

Harper’s New Monthly Magazine

First American review

NYT Review of Our Mutual Friend

November 22, 1865

The New York Times

Review of first American book edition

sanitary conditions of the city report

November 29, 1865

The Times

E.S. Dallas: “We class it with Mr. Dickens’s best works.”

Review of Our Mutual Friend

December 21, 1865

The Nation

Henry James: “The poorest of Dickens’s works.”

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