The official biography of Charles Dickens (1812 70) was published
in 1872 4 by his close friend and literary executor John Forster,
and has been reissued in this series. Of the many other memoirs and
reminiscences of the great novelist, this book by his favourite
daughter Mary (1838 96), known as Mamie, is perhaps the least
familiar. Published in 1896, shortly after her death, it gives a
loving picture, based on her own memories, of the person whom she
held 'in my heart of hearts as a man apart from all other men, as
one apart from all other beings'. Mamie, who had taken Dickens's
side during the separation from his wife, and acted effectively as
his housekeeper at Gad's Hill, had compiled an edition of her
father's letters with her aunt Georgina Hogarth, and this second
act of piety gives an idyllic - perhaps too idyllic - account of
daily life with Dickens."
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