Sunday, November 18, 2007

Miram Margolyes: Dickens Women

Remembering:
Summary
  • he took is characters from real life, from people he met.
  • he did not get over much and used his writing to express how he felt
  • He did not like women.
  • Some books published in installments in the weekly newspaper. A story of how a character changed was the person the character was based on complained and got a lawyer
Details
  • 17, lots of 17 year olds, due to the death in his family of a 17 yr old girl
  • He first love from the houses of parliament and there later meeting when she was poor and he was famous - he took his revenge
  • his first job was as a label sticker in a shoe blacking company
All in all an entertaining evening

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