Dickens' Women - Softcover

Miriam Margolyes; Sonia Fraser

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843913518 ISBN 13: 9781843913511

Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

In his novels Dickens presents a series of unrivalled portraits of women, young and old. From Little Nell to Miss Havisham, these girls and women speak to us today, making us laugh and sometimes cry. The popular British actress Miriam Margolyes will be touring the world in 2012, the bicentenary of Dickens birth, with a one-woman show about Dickens' women, and this book accompanies the show by building on the script and expanding to include many more of the female characters Dickens described and analysed so astutely in his novels. The countries to be visited are Australia, New Zealand, the USA and India. 'Mrs Pipchin was a marvellous ill-favoured, ill-conditioned old lady, of a stooping figure, with a mottled face, like bad marble, a hook nose, and a hard grey eye, that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil without sustaining any injury.'

About this title

Product Description:

Unusual book

Review:

"Absolute magic" (Daily Telegraph (tour review))

"Margolyes approaches her task with enormous relish. Her love of Dickens is evident from the moment she steps on stage" (Guardian (tour review))

About this edition

• Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1843913518
• ISBN 13: 9781843913511
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120