Mamie Dickens (1838–1896)
Autor(a) de My Father as I Recall Him
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
(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.
Image credit: Mary "Mamie" Dickens, daughter of Charles Dickens and sister of Charles Dickens, Jr.
Obras de Mamie Dickens
Associated Works
Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (2011) — Contribuinte, algumas edições — 77 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Dickens, Mamie
- Nome de batismo
- Dickens, Mary
- Data de nascimento
- 1838-03-06
- Data de falecimento
- 1896-07-23
- Local de enterro
- Sevenoaks, Kent, England, UK
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- London, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent, England, UK - Ocupação
- memoirist
- Relacionamentos
- Dickens, Charles (father)
Dickens, Charles, Jr. (brother)
Dickens, Mary Angela (niece)
Dickens, Cedric (grandnephew) - Aviso de desambiguação
- 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.
Membros
Resenhas
My Father as I Recall Him de 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.… (mais)
½Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 19
- Popularidade
- #609,294
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 7
- Idiomas
- 1