Monica Dickens
Birth date: May 10, 1915
Died: December 25, 1992
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imported:catholic tastesmove on, nothing to seetbr bustingspringpaper - Oxfam shop, DurhamAs the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, Monica Dickens Is worth a one-book look if only to see what the woman was about, however I won't be delving further into her now dated ouevre.2*Finished 12/05/2012
I first came across the name Monica Dickens from one of the recent articles I read commemorating Charles Dickens’ bicentennial—Monica’s great-grandfather. When I was looking through her bibliography, I thought The Landlord’s Daughter would be particularly interesting since it was her take on Alfred ...
I got about 120 pages in and just lost interest. Somehow, I didn't find this as funny or engaging as One Pair of Hands. I think it was easier to laugh about maid service; healing the sick isn't quite the same fodder for humor. Also, by page 80, she'd already used the N word twice; once as a nickname...
I was pre-reading this for I my son, but I could already see it's going to be quite a few years until he's ready for it, so I'll finish later.
[These notes were made in 1984:]. I took more delight in this than I would have normally simply because I was reading it when I should have been getting on with something else. But on re-reading it, I still appreciated its virtues - a definite knack for creating characters and realistic dialogue - ...
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