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Girl in a Blue Dress (English)A Novel Inspired by the Life and Marriage of Charles Dickens - ISBN: 9780307462268Publisher: Crown Pub Format: Hardcover Published Date: July 2009 MSRP: $25.99 Synopsis: Alfred Gibson, England's most famous author, is dead, and the streets throng with his mourners, but his wife Dorothea has not been invited to the funeral--Alfred banished her from his life years ago. Now, she sits reminiscing about their life together, his youthful exuberanc... read more Alfred Gibson, England's most famous author, is dead, and the streets throng with his mourners, but his wife Dorothea has not been invited to the funeral--Alfred banished her from his life years ago. Now, she sits reminiscing about their life together, his youthful exuberance, his courtship of Dorothea (his "girl in a blue dress"), his ever-increasing zeal for writing and public fame, and the events (including many mistresses) that led up to their estrangement. Gaynor Arnold's first novel, GIRL IN A BLUE DRESS, is a clearly based on the life of Charles Dickens, and is written in a wonderful Victorian style, full of vivid characters and dramatic set-pieces, though infused in the style of many recent historical novels and biographies with a new attentiveness to the significant yet marginalized role of women in the lives of the world's "great men." minimize
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