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Book The Other Dickens

Download or read book The Other Dickens written by Lillian Nayder and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 traveled widely, entertained frequently, and raised ten children. In 1858, the celebrated writer pressured Catherine to leave their home, unjustly alleging that she was mentally disordered—unfit and unloved as wife and mother. Constructing a plotline nearly as powerful as his stories of Scrooge and Little Nell, Dickens created the image of his wife as a depressed and uninteresting figure, using two of her three sisters against her, by measuring her presumed weaknesses against their strengths. This self-serving fiction is still widely accepted. In the first comprehensive biography of Catherine Dickens, Lillian Nayder debunks this tale in retelling it, wresting away from the famous novelist the power to shape his wife's story. Nayder demonstrates that the Dickenses' marriage was long a happy one; more important, she shows that the figure we know only as "Mrs. Charles Dickens" was also a daughter, sister, and friend, a loving mother and grandmother, a capable household manager, and an intelligent person whose company was valued and sought by a wide circle of women and men. Making use of the Dickenses' banking records and legal papers as well as their correspondence with friends and family members, Nayder challenges the long-standing view of Catherine Dickens and offers unparalleled insights into the relations among the four Hogarth sisters, reclaiming those cherished by the famous novelist as Catherine's own and illuminating her special bond with her youngest sister, Helen, her staunchest ally during the marital breakdown. Drawing on little-known, unpublished material and forcing Catherine's husband from center stage, The Other Dickens revolutionizes our perception of the Dickens family dynamic, illuminates the legal and emotional ambiguities of Catherine's position as a "single" wife, and deepens our understanding of what it meant to be a woman in the Victorian age.

Book American Book Prices Current

Download or read book American Book Prices Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.

Book Sale

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anderson Galleries, Inc
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1318 pages

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Book The Catalogue of the Suzannet Charles Dickens Collection

Download or read book The Catalogue of the Suzannet Charles Dickens Collection written by Dickens House and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sale Catalogues

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  • Author : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1432 pages

Download or read book Sale Catalogues written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sales

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  • Author : Parke-Bernet Galleries
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1940
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1018 pages

Download or read book Sales written by Parke-Bernet Galleries and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maggs Bros  Catalogues

Download or read book Maggs Bros Catalogues written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book James F  Drake  Inc  Book Sale Catalogs

Download or read book James F Drake Inc Book Sale Catalogs written by James F. Drake, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book United States Cumulative Book Auction Records

Download or read book United States Cumulative Book Auction Records written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 2174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Julia Margaret Cameron s Women

Download or read book Julia Margaret Cameron s Women written by Sylvia Wolf and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the life and work of a nineteenth century pioneer of photography and offers a selection of her portraits of women

Book A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art

Download or read book A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art written by Thomas Wright and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography  Flattisbury Freston

Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Flattisbury Freston written by Henry Colin Gray Matthew and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.

Book Chats on Autographs

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  • Author : Alexander Meyrick Broadley
  • Publisher : New York : F.A. Stokes Company
  • Release : 1910
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Chats on Autographs written by Alexander Meyrick Broadley and published by New York : F.A. Stokes Company. This book was released on 1910 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: