Charles Dickens (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: J. B. Priestley
- First Published: 1962
- Time of Work: 1812–1870
- Setting: England, principally London
- Principal Characters: Charles Dickens, Kate Hogarth Dickens, Georgina Hogarth, Mary Hogarth, Ellen Ternan, John Forster
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Novelists, England or English people, Biography, Victorian era or Victorianism
- Locales: London, England
Form and Content
In Charles Dickens: A Pictorial Biography, J. B. Priestley combines a narrative of the life and work of Dickens with a wealth of drawings and photographs of the principal actors in Dickens’ life and the culture about which he wrote. In a single unbroken narrative that spans 126 pages, Priestley takes Dickens from his quiet birth in Plymouth in 1812 to his burial in Westminster Abbey as the most famous literary figure of his time in June, 1870.
Priestley bases his story on the well-documented facts of Dickens’ extraordinary life: his unhappy...
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