false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255628915m/6552463.jpg 3916763 5 Alfred Gibson's funeral has taken place at Westminister Abbey, and his wife of twenty years, Dorothea, has not been invited. The Great Man favours his children and a clandestine mistress over his estranged wife. Dorothea revisits their early courtship before the birth of too many children snapped her vitality, and discovers the devious nature and hypnotic power of this celebrity author. Now she needs to face her grown up children, and worse, her nemesis of ten years, the charming Miss Ricketts. This is a re-telling of the lives of Charles and Catherine Dickens. 3962191 15 12 2008 Girl in a Blue Dress total:132|5:19|4:54|3:42|2:11|1:6| 132 465 494 71 5 1 false false Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 20 11:32:56 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 31 03:57:17 -0800 2008
Dorothea, widow of Alfred Gibson narrates the story. Alfred was the most famous novelist of Victorian times and much loved by the British public. The s...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 10:48:40 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 11:01:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 09:31:27 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 11:12:17 -0700 2009
The story is a fictionalization of life of Charles Dickens wife, Catherine Hogarth who he put aside ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 11:52:39 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 19:29:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 05:32:54 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 07:49:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 09 04:12:12 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 04:21:25 -0700 2009
The book changes the names of the characters, and...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 14:58:25 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 11:10:11 -0700 2009
This was a hard book to read for me, and I feel I may be mist...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 15:00:11 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 19:42:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 15:07:15 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 15:13:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 19 21:26:38 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 23:43:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 14:20:04 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 19:41:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 02:51:40 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 10:49:03 -0700 2009 One can imagi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 12:38:40 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 12:52:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 17 04:25:34 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 11:40:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 12 08:34:41 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 08:40:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jan 06 13:31:06 -0800 2009 Sun Oct 04 18:45:41 -0700 2009 David Copperfield in particular had some major autobiographical portions. But until I read Gaynor Arnold's fictionalized account of Dickens's marriage, I'd never actively disliked Dickens himself!

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A fictionalized account of the relationship between Charles Dickens and his wife I was completely absorbed in this novel. Unfortunately, things fell apart at the end when Dorothea (the wife) confronts the wom...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 17:23:15 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 17:27:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6552463