The Dolly Dialogues

Complete and unabridged, with 41 full-page plates by James Tissot, William Powell Frith and John Everett Millais. Mr Carter and Miss Dolly Foster talk — about her engagement, his losses, other people's marriages — in a series of dialogues in which nothing is said outright and everything is understood. Hope was a barrister who thought up The Prisoner of Zenda walking home from a court case and wrot...