Abstract
When Charles Lever died in 1872, he left behind a corpus of some thirty novels, five collections of essays, innumerable short pieces for periodicals, and a reputation to rival that of Charles Dickens at the height of his powers. Unlike that of Dickens, however, Lever's reputation suffered enormously after his death. There is currently only one novel available for study in a modern edition and no complete editions of his works have been published since 1947. Three biographies exist, the last one published in 1939. It seems that Lever is indeed a "Lost Victorian" as the title of this new work suggests. Why he fell from public favour, and what can be done to raise his stock again is the subject of S. P. Haddelsey's volume.
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