Charles Dickens' relationship with his illustrator Robert Seymour spawned a blood-soaked literary conspiracy
Mr Pickwick Addresses the Club - an illustration by Robert Seymour for the Pickwick Paper by Charles Dickens
On an autumn day in 2005, Stephen Jarvis and his wife descended into the crypt of St Mary Magdalene, Islington, in search of the lost tombstone of the Georgian illustrator Robert Seymour. Their torch eventually picked out his name among a stack of dusty masonry. Seymour illustrated the first two serial instalments of Charles Dickens’s The Pickwick Papers and his stone now lies in the garden of the Dickens Museum in London. A decade on and Jarvis is attempting another resurrection: that of Seymour’s reputation.
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Death and Mr Pickwick by Stephen Jarvis
816pp, Jonathan Cape, (RRP £20,
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Death and Mr Pickwick by Stephen Jarvis
816pp, Jonathan Cape, (RRP £20,
