The foregoing chapters have traveled the byways of literature – the neglected, the obscure, the unoriginal, and the insipid. I have recovered a number of texts that imitate the creative output of three nineteenth-century novelists. These aftertexts (as I designate them) have various aims and purposes: they denigrate the successful, capitalize on their triumphs, or associate, even obliquely, with the reigning authors of the day. Because of his immense popularity, Charles Dickens was a natural resource for aftertextual authors. The most persistent Dickensian copyist of the mid-nineteenth century was Thomas Peckett Prest, but other anonymous and pseudonymous texts stalked the early career of Dickens the novelist.