Dickens's Women by Anne Isba

Dickens's Women by Anne Isba

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.

Reviewed in The Telegraph http://wwwtelegraph.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 priced offering just in time for Christmas. -- The Church Times
Featured in a 'best books' round-up in The Times.
Reviewed in the Financial Times.

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.

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ISBN 13	9781441107206
ISBN 10	1441107207
Title	Dickens's Women
Author	Anne Isba
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Continuum Publishing Corporation
Year published	2011-12-15
Number of pages	184
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.