{"id":1866,"date":"2012-11-21T10:15:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T15:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2012-11-21T10:15:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T15:15:53","slug":"great-expectations-the-sons-and-daughters-of-charles-dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/great-expectations-the-sons-and-daughters-of-charles-dickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What a great year for books about Charles Dickens! The 200th birthday of the author has seen the publication of some interesting\u00a0 biographies. The latest, Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens<\/a><\/em> by Robert Gottlieb, hits the bookstores on November 27th.<\/p>\n

Gottlieb’s book focuses on the lives of the ten children of Charles Dickens.\u00a0 (Yep, he had ten<\/em> children.)\u00a0 It also touches on a possible child that Dickens had with his mistress, Ellen Ternan.<\/p>\n

I haven’t read a review copy, but Publisher’s Weekly has.\u00a0 In their review of\u00a0 Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens<\/em><\/a> PW says, “This smart and accessible biography is written in a clever, conversational tone that radiates coziness during even the coldest moments, keeping the pages swiftly turning. ”<\/p>\n

Here’s what Amazon has to say about the book:<\/p>\n

Charles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created\u2014from Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield\u2014was also the father of ten children (and a possible eleventh). What happened to those children is the fascinating subject of Robert Gottlieb\u2019s Great Expectations<\/em>. With sympathy and understanding he narrates the highly various and surprising stories of each of Dickens\u2019s sons and daughters, from Kate, who became a successful artist, to Frank, who died in Moline, Illinois, after serving a grim stretch in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.<\/p>\n

Each of these lives is fascinating on its own. Together they comprise a unique window on Victorian England as well as a moving and disturbing study of Dickens as a father and as a man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go to Amazon.com to buy Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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