Charles Dickens
A House to Let: A drama story
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( July 14, 2020)
"A House to Let" is a short story by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell
and Adelaide Anne Procter. It was originally published in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household
Words magazine. Collins wrote the introduction and collaborated with Dickens on the second story and ending,
while Gaskell and Proctor wrote the remainder.
The plot concerns an elderly woman, Sophonisba, who notices signs of life in a supposedly empty
dilapidated house (the eponymous "House to Let") opposite her own and employs the efforts of an elderly admirer,
Jabez Jarber, and her servant, Trottle, to discover what is happening within.
and Adelaide Anne Procter. It was originally published in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household
Words magazine. Collins wrote the introduction and collaborated with Dickens on the second story and ending,
while Gaskell and Proctor wrote the remainder.
The plot concerns an elderly woman, Sophonisba, who notices signs of life in a supposedly empty
dilapidated house (the eponymous "House to Let") opposite her own and employs the efforts of an elderly admirer,
Jabez Jarber, and her servant, Trottle, to discover what is happening within.
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