Charles Dickens signature together with signatures of other eminent figures relating to the Guild of Literature and Art. Some names featuring in the cast of Not So Bad As We Seem include novelists Charles Dickens and W.Wilkie Collins, Punch editor Mark Lemon, artists Augustus Egg and John Tenniel and writers Peter Cunningham and Douglas Jerrold. Also on this page are the signatures for Frank Stone artist (1800-1859), William Henry Wills (1810-1880), and Charles Knight Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton and Charles Dickens established The Guild of Literature and Art in 1850, a society to benefit struggling authors and artists, and Lytton wrote the comedy Not So Bad As We Seem. It was originally produced on 27 May 1851, at an evening's entertainment to launch the Guild at Devonshire House, the Piccadilly home of the Duke of Devonshire who paid the expenses of the original production. Dickens was both actor and stage manager, and co-opted many of his artistic and literary friends into the cast and production team. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert came to the Devonshire House event, and its great success was repeated several times during 1851 and 1852, at London's Hanover Square Rooms, and in other large towns such as Manchester.
Charles Dickens signature together with signatures of other eminent figures relating to the Guild of Literature and Art. Some names featuring in the cast of Not So Bad As We Seem include novelists Charles Dickens and W.Wilkie Collins, Punch editor Mark Lemon, artists Augustus Egg and John Tenniel and writers Peter Cunningham and Douglas Jerrold. Also on this page are the signatures for Frank Stone artist (1800-1859), William Henry Wills (1810-1880), and Charles Knight Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton and Charles Dickens established The Guild of Literature and Art in 1850, a society to benefit struggling authors and artists, and Lytton wrote the comedy Not So Bad As We Seem. It was originally produced on 27 May 1851, at an evening's entertainment to launch the Guild at Devonshire House, the Piccadilly home of the Duke of Devonshire who paid the expenses of the original production. Dickens was both actor and stage manager, and co-opted many of his artistic and literary friends into the cast and production team. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert came to the Devonshire House event, and its great success was repeated several times during 1851 and 1852, at London's Hanover Square Rooms, and in other large towns such as Manchester.
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