Charles Dickens’s first novel, The Pickwick Papers, goes on show

Although he was a successful writer already, it was the publication of The Pickwick Papers in 1836 that was to transform Charles Dickens into the publishing legend that we know today, and there’s an exhibition about that first novel at his eponymous museum.
The novel wasn’t published as a novel, but was serialised over 20 months, as was often the case at the time, and it was the serialisation that made the novel such a success, with people having to wait for a month to get the next s