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Charles Dickens and the Image of Woman
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: David Holbrook
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: NYU Press

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Dickens, of course, had to accept the conventions of his time. Clearly the Victorian problem - which was man's problem as much as it was woman's - was that of b
Charles Dickens and the Image of Woman
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: David Holbrook
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-02 - Publisher: NYU Press

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Holbrook (English, Cambridge U.) explains how Dickens dealt with the Victorian English problem of merging the ideal and the libidinous woman, by delighting in f
Dickens' Women
Language: en
Pages: 87
Authors: Miriam Margolyes
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-12 - Publisher: Hesperus Press

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A captivating portrait of some of Charles DickensOCO most memorable female characters presented by popular actress Miriam Margolyes to accompany her hugely succ
The Other Dickens
Language: en
Pages: 377
Authors: Lillian Nayder
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-01 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Catherine Hogarth, who came from a cultured Scots family, married Charles Dickens in 1836, the same year he began serializing his first novel. Together they tra
The Invisible Woman
Language: en
Pages: 477
Authors: Claire Tomalin
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-29 - Publisher: Vintage

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Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857; she was 18, a hard-working actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep, and he was 45, the most lioniz