Title: The wreck of the Golden Mary /
Authors: Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Callow, Simon, 1949-; Gregory, Melissa Valiska.; Klimaszewski, Melisa
Publisher: Hesperus,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Gold mines and mining California Fiction.; Shipwrecks Fiction; Short stories, English.
Abstract: Dickens assumed the captain's narrative and assigned that for the first mate (whom he appropriately named "John Steadiman") to his acolyte, Collins. While Dickens uses his portions of the novella to expose the inherent dangers of female emancipation and "to displace the problem of labor unrest in the merchant marine", Collins employs his portions of the narrative to justify the smoldering resentment of subordinates, causing the surviving sailors to desert and refuse to return to their home port and replacing Dickens's Ravender with Steadiman as commander.