![]() ![]() This, and her work as a cook and servant, informed much of her writing. ![]() ![]() Despite her privileged upbringing, Dickens volunteered in the service and worked in an aircraft factory repairing Spitfire fighters. She was an active humanitarian and is the author of numerous novels and children’s books. Her father was Henry Charles Dickens, the eighth son of Charles Dickens. ![]() Monica Dickens was born in London in 1915. She wondered whether they had gone through these pangs before they bobbed it, or whether their husbands had laughingly clapped a basin over their heads one fine Putney day and run a pair of scissors round as casually as they would trim a garden hedge. A bestseller in its time, Mariana is the often-comical story of a typical English girl growing up in the 1930s.Ī lively young woman who has no idea what to do with her life, Mary is often at loose but happy ends: going to school and vacationing in Kensington a hilarious failed attempt at drama school a year in Paris learning dressmaking and getting engaged to the wrong man and finally her romance with the right man. Monica Dickens, the great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, published Mariana in 1940 when she was only twenty-four years old. This book is written with verve and exuberance.”- The Sunday Telegraph ![]()
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