Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Author(s): Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

Biography

An illustrated guide to Charles Dickens and his works. It follows Dickens from early childhood, including his time spent as a child labourer, and looks at how he became the greatest celebrity of his age - and how he still remains recognized as one of England's greatest celebrities, even in the twenty-first century.


Product Information

Lucinda Dickens Hawksley is the great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens and a patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London. She has written more than 20 books, including Lizzie Siddal, The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel (2004) and Katey, The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter (2006).

Charles Dickens's Childhood; Leaving School and Starting Work; Maria Beadnell; Sketches by Boz; Pickwick Papers; Married Life; Oliver Twist; The Hogarth Family; The Ten Dickens Children; Nicholas Nickleby; Charles Dickens's London Homes; The Old Curiosity Shop; Barnaby Rudge; Dickens and America; Martin Chuzzlewit; The Italian Year; A Christmas Carol; Dickens and Religion; The Magazines; Dombey and Son; Extended Family; David Copperfield; Dickens the Actor; Dickens and the Police; Bleak House; Dickens's Social Conscience; Hard Times; Dickens and Artists; Little Dorrit; Living in Paris; A Tale of Two Cities; Dickens at Gad's Hill; Great Expectations; Ellen Ternan; Our Mutual Friend; The Staplehurst Crash; The Reading Tours; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; The Legacy of Charles Dickens.

General Fields

  • : 9780233003290
  • : Carlton Books Ltd
  • : Andre Deutsch Ltd
  • : 0.454
  • : 30 September 2011
  • : 298mm X 260mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
  • : Hardback
  • : 1
  • : 823.8
  • : 124
  • : approx. 180 colour & b&w photographs