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Dickens´s Women: His Great Expectations
Anne Isba
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Description for Dickens´s Women: His Great Expectations
Hardback. A book on a controversial aspect of Dickens' personality published for his bi-centennial year. It provides an account of the half dozen most important women in Dickens' life. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 200 x 22. Weight in Grams: 324.
This is a short book on a key and most controversial aspect of Dickens' personality published for his bi-centennial year. This is a short and colourful account of the half dozen most important women in Dickens' life, in time for his bi-centennial year. Each woman reflects a different aspect of Dickens' character and life. There is some linking of real women with fictional ones eg Mary Beadnell with Dora Spenlow but the main purpose is to demoinstrate the importance of women in the life of this literary genius.
This is a short book on a key and most controversial aspect of Dickens' personality published for his bi-centennial year. This is a short and colourful account of the half dozen most important women in Dickens' life, in time for his bi-centennial year. Each woman reflects a different aspect of Dickens' character and life. There is some linking of real women with fictional ones eg Mary Beadnell with Dora Spenlow but the main purpose is to demoinstrate the importance of women in the life of this literary genius.
Product Details
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441107206
SKU
V9781441107206
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About Anne Isba
Anne Isba read Italian and French at Somerville College, Oxford and has a doctorate in Victorian Studies. A former journalist, she is the author of Gladstone and Dante and Gladstone and Women, an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Keele and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Reviews for Dickens´s Women: His Great Expectations
Reviewed in The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/charles-dickens/9055188/Charles-Dickens-the-abuser-of-women.html As a biography of Dickens, this short book makes an interesting read, and I was particularly grateful for the six-page chronology of his life which follows the final chapter. http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=Dickens%
thebookbag.com Selected as recommended reading in The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/great-expectations-charles-dickens-bicentenary-is-set-to-make-a-fortune-6270459.html General readers, who might like a gentle trot through the terrain, can acquire this reasonably ... Read more
thebookbag.com Selected as recommended reading in The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/great-expectations-charles-dickens-bicentenary-is-set-to-make-a-fortune-6270459.html General readers, who might like a gentle trot through the terrain, can acquire this reasonably ... Read more