My Father as I Recall Him

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-108-07455-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 154 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 203 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

The official biography of Charles Dickens (1812–70) was published in 1872–4 by his close friend and literary executor John Forster, and has been reissued in this series. Of the many other memoirs and reminiscences of the great novelist, this book by his favourite daughter Mary (1838–96), known as Mamie, is perhaps the least familiar. Published in 1896, shortly after her death, it gives a loving picture, based on her own memories, of the person whom she held 'in my heart of hearts as a man apart from all other men, as one apart from all other beings'. Mamie, who had taken Dickens's side during the separation from his wife, and acted effectively as his housekeeper at Gad's Hill, had compiled an edition of her father's letters with her aunt Georgina Hogarth, and this second act of piety gives an idyllic - perhaps too idyllic - account of daily life with Dickens.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dickens, Mamie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Seeing Gad's Hill as a child; 2. Buying Christmas presents; 3. My father at his work; 4. Fondness for athletic sports; 5. Interest in London birds; Last words spoken in public.