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Zac Z
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Zac Z fragte in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · vor 4 Monaten

Does anyone know what "H. d. R." stands for?

A couple of years ago I bought an edition of Charles Dickens' "Christmas Books" in a second-hand bookshop. The edition is from 1954, published by Collins.

Before the actual text, there's a short two-page biography of Dickens, signed by a certain "H. d. R.".

Does anyone have an idea what these initials (I assume they are initials) stand for?

There's also an introduction by a certain D. N. Brereton which obviously is not a match for those initials.

I'm aware this question is a long shot but why not give it a try?

Aktualisiert vor 3 Tagen:

First of all, my apologies for choosing the "best answer" so late. I had hoped that someone could help out, and then, frankly, forgot about it.

There had been this one guy who gave an answer but later deleted it again; the initials did fit but I couldn't find anything indicating that the suggested person actually wrote that introduction. Maybe it was just a wild guess, given that the supposed writer of the biography had a different nationality and no apparent connection to Collins or Dickens.

Aktualisiert vor 3 Tagen:

Anyway, I really appreciate your answer very much, MsBittner! Your guess that it was an in-house staffer at Collins makes sense; identifying that person now almost 70 years later is a challenge and in the end not that important. So it will have to remain a mystery!   ;-)

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  • MsBittner
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    vor 4 Monaten
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    This kind of thing is fun to poke around at. Let me give it a try and see if I get anywhere. I'll edit this with any results.

    Edit: I suspect the brief bio might be by someone working in-house at Collins at the time of publications. Major and lesser biographers include John Forster, Edgar Johnson,Fred Kaplan, Peter Ackroyd, John Carey, Humphrey House, Claire Tomalin, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert Gottlieb, Michael Slater, Jane Smiley, Martin Fido, David Cody (listed in the order in which I found their names, not of importance or chronology), but not anyone with the right initials.

    My efforts to identify Collins employees of the era was fruitless.

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