Girl in a blue dress : a novel inspired by the life and marriage of Charles Dickens / Gaynor Arnold.
Author: Arnold, Gaynor.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, c2008.
ISBN: 9780307462268
0307462269
Description: 414 p. ; 25 cm.
Subject: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Fiction.
Dickens, Catherine, 1815-1879 Fiction.
Authors' spouses Fiction.
Widows Fiction.
Authors, English Family relationships Fiction.
England Social life and customs 19th century Fiction.
Domestic fiction. lcsh
Historical fiction.
Notes: "Originally published in slightly different form in Great Britain," Birmingham : Tindal Street Press, 2008.
Summary: "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.
