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Gaynor Arnold - Girl in a Blue Dress: A Novel Inspired by the Life and Marriage of Charles Dickens

 
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Gaynor Arnold - Girl in a Blue Dress: A Novel Inspired by the Life and Marriage of Charles Dickens
 
 
 
 
 
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"In creating my [the author's] own story of Alfred and Dorothea Gibson, I have taken a novelist's liberties as I explored an imaginative path through their relationship. . . . Inspired by "threads of Dickens's own preoccupations with things strange, romantic, and melodramatic rather than realistic ... at times, characters from his novels make a transmuted appearance as characters in his life. ... Above all, in Dorothea Gibson I have tried to give voice to the largely voiceless Catherine Dickens, who once requested that her letters from her husband be preserved so that 'the world may know he loved me once.' " -- Author's note.
 
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A troubling tale of a marriage and celebrity in _Girl in a Blue Dress_

Date of Review:  Jul 28, 2009
The Bottom Line: A remarkable first novel, and a must-read for fans of Victorian literature and especially Charles Dickens.
Review: Some months ago one of the reading groups that I belong to online was buzzing about a novel set in the Victorian period. Many considered it to be a very good novel and worth the effort to read, and when it was released here in the States, I decided...
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A look inside a marriage that...
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I had a deep dislike of Alfred Gibson...
 
 
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Authors Gaynor Arnold
Fiction Genre Family & Relationships
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  New York Times Book Review: "Throughout, Arnold deftly but unobtrusively evokes Dorothea's world, from the smell of clothes freshly dyed black to the unwelcome ubiquity of seed sake on the tea table. Dickens aficionados will delight in winky references to his novels, as well as to his biography..."

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  Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Crown Pub (July 14, 2009)
Measurements: 9.5"(h) x 6.5"(w) x 1.5"(d), 1.56 lbs.
ISBN: 9780307462268
 
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