Dickens' Women - Softcover

Fraser, Sonia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843913518 ISBN 13: 9781843913511

Publisher: Hesperus Press, 2012

Synopsis

A celebration of the singular female characters to be found in Dickens's works In his novels Dickens presents a series of unrivaled portraits of women, young and old. From Little Nell to Miss Havisham, these girls and women speak to audiences today, making readers 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 analyzed so astutely in his novels. "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

About the Author:

Miriam Margolyes is an actor best known for her appearances as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films. She is also a life-long Dickens enthusiast who hosted the BBC documentary series Dickens' America and is a regular attendee at the annual Dickens Universe scholarly conference, held each summer at UC Santa Cruz.

From AudioFile:

Miriam Margolyes is one of the finest narrators in the business today. She has a particular flair for Dickens, which she proved on London and American stages in her witty, informed and brilliantly acted monologue, DICKENS'S WOMEN. Margolyes has Dickens's verbal/visual personality down pat and breathes memorable, credible life into each of his many caricatures. One sees the story rather than hears it. She not only communicates the Dickensian world, but convinces us that it is a real world, full of vivid, breathing souls whom we can't help loving, hating, admiring and especially fretting over. Margoyles shows her brilliant rapport with an audience as DICKENS'S WOMEN was taped live in London The package quotes a London critic who calls the show "absolute magic." An understatement. Y.R. An AudioFile Earphones Award winner. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Hesperus Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1843913518
• ISBN 13: 9781843913511
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Margolyes Miriam