Disputes & Feuds
Throughout his life Dickens had many disagreements and arguments with friends, business partners, and peers. Some, like his fights with employers John Easthope at the Morning Chronicle and Richard Bentley of Bentley's Miscellany, were age-old arguments about pay, creative freedom, and contracts. Others, like the incident with William Thackeray, were matters of rivalry and honour. But those with his publishers Chapman & Hall and Bradbury & Evans, as well as his decision to separate from his wife Catherine, were deeper, more personal, and perhaps irrational.
