Mamie Dickens (1838–1896)
Autor de My Father as I Recall Him
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Nota de desambiguación:
(eng) Mamie Dickens is the daughter of Charles Dickens and sister of Charles Dickens, Jr. Her neice, Mary Angela Dickens, was also known as Mamie Dickens. This Mamie Dickens wrote books specifically about her father and her life around him. Mary Angela wrote many more books, including novels and children's stories.
Créditos de la imagen: Mary "Mamie" Dickens, daughter of Charles Dickens and sister of Charles Dickens, Jr.
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Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (2011) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 77 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Dickens, Mamie
- Nombre legal
- Dickens, Mary
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1838-03-06
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1896-07-23
- Lugar de sepultura
- Sevenoaks, Kent, England, UK
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- London, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- London, England, UK
Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent, England, UK - Ocupaciones
- memoirist
- Relaciones
- Dickens, Charles (father)
Dickens, Charles, Jr. (brother)
Dickens, Mary Angela (niece)
Dickens, Cedric (grandnephew) - Aviso de desambiguación
- Mamie Dickens is the daughter of Charles Dickens and sister of Charles Dickens, Jr. Her neice, Mary Angela Dickens, was also known as Mamie Dickens. This Mamie Dickens wrote books specifically about her father and her life around him. Mary Angela wrote many more books, including novels and children's stories.
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My Father as I Recall Him por Mamie Dickens
This wholly laudatory memoir by Dickens's elder daughter is a good example of the mythologisation of the great author's life and the expunging of any aspect which would contradict the public image he and his family wished to preserve, as detailed by Claire Tomalin in her book on Nelly Ternan that I have just read. The memoir centres on uncontroversial, homely aspects such as celebration of Christmas at Gad's Hill and the family's many pets (including the raven Grip that features in Barnaby Rudge). Read with the knowledge of the much murkier reality taken as read, though, it is nevertheless a good and quite moving piece of writing.… (más)
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- 19
- Popularidad
- #609,294
- Valoración
- 4.1
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- ISBNs
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