Great Expectations : The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens (Hardcover)

from MickyFine

A biography of Dickens' ten children is no easy task and Gottlieb creates a highly readable book. Dividing the book into the childrens' lives while Dickens was alive and after his death is an intriguing structure although providing their lifespans in both halves of the book rather than just the f...

from sallylou61

Although this book contains interesting information about the ten children of Charles Dickens and describes Charles Dickens unfavorably as a husband and father, the book is poorly arranged. Separate chapters are devoted to each son's and daughter's life; for those who survived Dickens, an additio...

from thornton37814

The author takes a look at the children of author Charles Dickens. It depicts Dickens as a father who enjoyed was a good father during their early years when they were playing but as one who was eager to get them out of the house and self-sufficient too. It also shows that he was a bad husband, w...

from Beamis12

Although much is known about Charles Dickens, His very public breakup with Catherine, the mother of his 9 children, his mistreatment of her, I have never read very much about the children. Gottlieb adroitly tackles the fate of the Dickens children, how they fared after the breakup of their parent...

from akblanchard

If you have a father as famous and as domineering as Charles Dickens was in his time, you can't help but turn out a little odd. Robert Gottlieb's Great Expectations describes what it was like to grow up with Charles Dickens as a father. The literary icon's ten sons and daughters worshipped him, a...