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查尔斯·狄更斯和他的跟踪者
对于查尔斯·狄更斯来说 For all Charles Dickens knew,
他1867年的第二次美国之行充满了敌意 his second American tour starting in 1867 might be a trip into hostile territory.
他的第一次访美破除了他对美国民主制度的幻想 His tour in the country in 1842 left him disillusioned,
他接下来的书《游美札记》和《马丁·朱什尔维特》 and his subsequent books American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit
尖锐地抨击了当时的美国 offered stinging criticism of the America he experienced.
但他很绝望 But he was desperate.
他挣扎在挥霍无度的妻子每月的开支 Between his banished wife's monthly stipend
和六个孩子的上流生活的高额费用中 and supporting his many children's upper class lifestyles. Six of them in total
他在给妻妹的信中写道 he wrote to his sister-in-law stating,
开支实在太大了，我觉得我开始向往美国， 就像是《双城记》中的达尔奈被巴黎的磁礁所吸引一样
在那个时候还没有国际著作权法 At the time, there was no international copyright law，
使得各种他的盗版书的销售 making it so pirated copies of his various work
在美国长盛不衰 had long been hot sellers in the United States,
而他从中又拿不到一分钱 but he hadn't earned a penny from them.
为了了解他众多的美国读者 To tap into his vast audience in America,
他在朗诵会期间到处旅行 he simply traveled over and toured around during readings
第二次来到大西洋彼岸的美国 With his second jaunt across the pond,
尽管第一次访美后他的作品抨击了这个国家 despite his scathing works about the country after his first trip
事实证明他并不需要担忧公众的反应 it turns out he need not have worried about the public response.
美国人在南北战争后和在1842年他第一次访美时 Post Civil War Americans were just as eager , if not more so,
同样渴望 或更渴望见到这位享誉盛名的作家 to see the famous author as they had been when he visited in 1842
他真的时常需要挣扎着 And he literally struggled at times
不被那些想要纪念品的粉丝撕破身上的衣服 not to have his clothes torn from his body by fans who wanted a souvenir.
据报道有一位粉丝甚至 One fan even reportedly
在他走之后给狄更斯的鞋印铸模 made impressions of one of Dickens' boot prints after he'd walked away
这不算什么 This was nothing new.
在他1842年访美期间 During his 1842 tour,
他曾抱怨过当他在早上醒来的时候 he once complained he woke up in the morning
发现很多人挤在舷窗前看他和他的妻子睡觉 to find several man crowding the window of his boat watching him and his wife to sleep
他这么形容那次访问 He noted of that trip,
如果我走到街上，我会被一大群人跟着。我张嘴 喝杯水都会被100个人盯着我的喉咙看着我吞咽。
最终 狄更斯赚回了38000英镑 In the end, Dickens bagged the equivalent of £38,000
在第二次访美期间的76场朗诵会中 from 76 readings during his second tour of America.
占据了20%的 Accounting for a remarkable 20% of
从访问后到他去世为止所拥有的财产价值 the value of his estate upon his death shortly after the trip.
狄更斯在1867年11月19日到达波士顿开始了他第二次访美之旅 Dickens arrived in Boston for this second American tour on November 19, 1867.
在他抵达美国和第一次朗诵会之间的一个半星期内 With the week and a half between his arrival and his first speaking engagement,
他在帕克豪斯酒店下榻 he kept himself in entertained at the Parker House hotel
在那里吃饭打牌 by dinning and playing games with
和他的经纪人 出版商 还有来自纽约的比格罗夫妇一起 among others,his manager, publisher and a New York couple,the Bigelow's
约翰·比格罗是《纽约晚邮报》的编辑和合伙人 John Bigelow of New York edited and co-owned the New York Evening Post
自1849年起到1861年 from 1849 to 1861
当他成为美国外交团的一员 when he became a factor in the international diplomacy.
比格罗从1857年起成为共和党人 Bigelow, a Republican since 1857
在他因反对奴隶制离开民主党后 after walking away from the Democrats over the issue of slavery,
他在1861年被亚伯拉罕·林肯任命到巴黎美国领事馆 was appointed to the American Consul in Paris by Abraham Lincoln in1861
他很快获得了晋升 He quickly progressed up in the ranks
从代理大使到特命全权公使 to Chargé d'Affaires to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
他利用自己在拿破仑三世法院的影响力避免了法国 He used his influence in Napoleon III' court to help stop France from
在南北战争中给美利坚联盟国提供任何帮助 providing any aid to the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
法国没有提供帮助在合众国的胜利中起到了重要的作用 That lack of aid played a major role in the success of the Union.
在1865年他因他的努力 He was rewarded for his efforts with
而获得了美国驻法大使的职位 a promotion to the position of American Ambassador to Fance in 1865.
比格罗的妻子 简 在1829年出生于马里兰州巴尔的摩 Bigelow's wife, Jane, was born in Baltimore Maryland, in 1829
并在1850年嫁给了约翰·比格罗 and married John Bigelow in June of 1850.
这对夫妇有9个孩子但他们的婚姻一点也不幸福 The couple had 9 children together, but their marriage was anything but happy.
一部分原因是她的教养 或者说缺乏教养和古怪的举止 Part of the problem was her decorum, or lack thereof, and erratic behavior.
就约翰而言 At least as far as John was concerned.
这导致了她多次在国宴中在大庭广众下使他们夫妇蒙羞 This resulted in several noted incidents of her embarrassing the pair at state functions,
这包括了在宴会上扇了威尔士王子的背 including slapping the Prince of Whales on the back at one function,
据称严重地冒犯了他 reportedly severely offending him.
查尔斯·狄更斯非常同情比格罗不幸的婚姻 Charles Dickens was sympathetic towards John Bigelow's unhappy marriage.
当他在1867年遇见这对夫妻的时候 when he met with the couples in 1867,
也因此和比格罗一拍即合 and bonded with him over it.
狄更斯常常和人讲 You see, Dickens himself often voiced his displeasure
他和妻子凯瑟琳·霍佳思的婚姻的不快 at being married to his wife, Catherine Hogarth,
声称他和她完全合不来 stating he "was totally incompatible" with her.
尽管如此 他们仍然养育了10个孩子 Despite this, the unhappy couple managed to have 10 children together.
在差不多把凯瑟琳赶到了伦敦后 After more or less banishing Catherine to London,
离婚根本不可能 因为他的名誉和随之而来的丑闻 a divorce wasn't possible due to his fame and scandal it would have caused.
他反而常常和情妇待在一起 一个叫爱伦·特南的女人 he instead kept his beloved mistress nearby most of time, one Ellen Ternan,
在婚外情开始时他已经45岁 而她只有18岁 who he had originally begun having an affair with when he was 45 and she was 18.
两人的恋情一直保持到1870年他去世 享年58岁 The pair remained together until his death in 1870 at the age of 58,
他死后为她留下了一大笔遗产 at which point he left her a sizable inheritances.
狄更斯没有把爱伦带到美国 Dickens had chosen not to bring Ellen with him to America
因为接踵而来的可能的丑闻 due to the potential scandal that might ensue
如果两人的关系被媒体曝光 if the relationship was publicized in the media.
狄更斯的出版商的妻子安妮·菲尔兹夫人在她的日记中写道狄更斯觉得 Dickens' publisher's wife, Mrs. Annie Fields wrote in her diary that Dickens felt
深深地同情那些娶错妻子的男人并且和 约翰·比格罗，我们已故的驻法大使，产生了共鸣， 因为他的妻子是个噩梦。
不用说 Needless to say,
狄更斯和简的丈夫一样与她相处不睦 Dickens didn't appear to get along with Jane any better than her husband did.
即使在当时经历了 But even after experiencing at the time somewhat
异乎寻常的名人身份带来的特殊的关注 unique attention his extreme celebrity status brought in during his tour of America
他从来不敢想象会遇上跟踪狂 he could never even have imagined facing a stalker.
这是一个如今常见的摇滚歌星一类的名人 This was an age when "rock star" type celebrity status
几乎闻所未闻的年代 so common today was basically unheard of
狄更斯将这些全都写了下来 and Dickens stated all of it
这是多么的怪异， 我的身上总是发生一些世界上没有人会相信的事。
菲尔兹夫人描述了简的转变 Mrs. Fields diary revealed a tipping point in Jane's transition
从令人反感的到跟踪狂 from "obnoxious" to "stalker",
特别提到简的行为至少使得情况变得危急 noting that Jane's behavior "at last brought the matter to a crisis"
在开始说她是噩梦后不到一个月 less than a month after the entry calling her incubus.
一切都从纽约开始 And it all started in New York
一位寡妇赫兹夫人是查尔斯·狄更斯的狂热粉 A widow named Mrs. Hertz was a big fan of Charles Dickens.
她极度渴望 and she desperately wanted to
在纽约威斯敏斯特酒店的朗诵会后和他见面 meet him after his reading at in Westminster Hotel in New York.
她给他送花 She sent him flowers
并且说服她的在威斯敏斯特当经理的朋友安排一场会面 and convinced her friend who managed the Westminster to arrange a meeting.
赫兹夫人在第二天中午和狄更斯在他的房中见面 Mrs. Hertz met Dickens the next day at noon in his room.
然而她不知道的是 However, what she did not know was that
简·比格罗会在她从房间离开后在走廊上等着她 Jane Bigelow would be waiting for her in the hallway when she left.
当赫兹夫人出现在狄更斯的房间前 Upon Mrs. Hertz emerging from Dickens' room,
简就开始用拳头打她同时朝她大吼 Jane began striking her with her fists while simultaneously screaming at her.
她的袭击并没有怎么改变狄更斯的安全措施 The attack did not do much to change Dickens' security
他的经纪人派保镖一直驻守在作家的门前 as his manager already stationed guards outside the author's door at all hours
来防止粉丝闯入 to prevent fans from barging inside.
然而 从此时起 However, from that point on,
狄更斯把简逐出了他的社交圈 Dickens did banish Jane from his social circle,
并通知他的保镖不让她靠近 and let his guards know to keep her away.
这并没有阻止她试图接近他 This didn't stop her from trying to get near him.
在他留在纽约的剩余期间 Over the course of the remainder of his stay in New York,
她多次试图去见他 但都被他的保镖赶走 she attempted to see him several more times, but was turned away by his guards.
她在酒店附近徘徊只为见到他 She also took to hanging around the hotel to watch him.
因此 每次狄更斯需要离开或回到酒店 As such, whenever Dickens need to leave the hotel or return,
他的朋友都要帮他盯梢并且提醒他简是不是在附近 his friends served as lookouts and alerted him if Jane was around.
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