The wreck of the Golden Mary
By: Charles Dickens ; foreword by Simon Callow.
Contributors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Series: Hesperus classics
Publisher: Hesperus
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781843911333
Subjects: Gold mines and mining -- California -- Fiction.; Shipwrecks -- Fiction.; Short stories, English.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.