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Dickens’s Women
His Great Expectations
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Artikel-Nr:
9781441107206
Veröffentl:
2011
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.12.2011
Seiten:
184
Autor:
Anne Isba
Gewicht:
318 g
Format:
208x139x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Anne Isba read Modern Languages at Oxford and has a doctorate in Victorian Studies. A former journalist, she is the author of Gladstone and Dante, Gladstone and Women and The Excellent Mrs Fry, an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Keele and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
On the bicentenary of his birth, this short account of the emotional life of Charles Dickens examines his relationships with some of the women to whom he was closest.
They include the mother who failed to recognise his early promise; the young woman who spurned him before he was famous; the wife he cast aside in middle age; the benefactress for whom he managed a house for 'fallen women'; and the actress, less than half his age, with whom he spent his final years.
Each woman casts light on a different aspect of Dickens's personality. But they were united by a common theme: whatever they gave him, it was rarely enough to satisfy Dickens's sense of entitlement.
They include the mother who failed to recognise his early promise; the young woman who spurned him before he was famous; the wife he cast aside in middle age; the benefactress for whom he managed a house for 'fallen women'; and the actress, less than half his age, with whom he spent his final years.
Each woman casts light on a different aspect of Dickens's personality. But they were united by a common theme: whatever they gave him, it was rarely enough to satisfy Dickens's sense of entitlement.
A short book on a key and most controversial aspect of Dickens's personality published for his bi-centennial year.
Crucial aspect of Dickens for the bi-centennial year.
List of Illustrations Foreword Introduction 1.Mother 2. Lover 3. Wife (and her sisters) 4. Philanthropist 5. Actress 6. Epilogue Chronology Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index