Miriam Margolyes presents readings and commentary on a rich assortment of 30 women from the novels of Dickens, from the dramatic Sarah Gamp to the crusty Miss Havisham and the pathetic Little Nell. The performance was given first in a one-woman West End show, and then on Radio 4.

Dickens' Women: Performed by Miriam Margoyles (BBC Radio Collection)

Fraser, Sonia

Margolyes, Miriam

DICKENS., CHARLES

BBC CONSUMER PUBLISHING

One of the most popular writers of all time, Charles Dickens enthralled readers with his characters, especially his female characters. "Dickens' Women" celebrates these characters--from "The Old Curiosity Shop's" Little Nell to the loyal Mrs. Micawber of "David Copperfield"--and the real-life people who inspired them.

Dickens' Women

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Audio Partners, The

A celebration of the singular female characters to be found in Dickens's works In his novels Dickens presents a series of unrivaled portraits of women, young and old. From Little Nell to Miss Havisham, these girls and women speak to audiences today, making readers laugh and sometimes cry. The popular British actress Miriam Margolyes will be touring the world in 2012, the bicentenary of Dickens birth, with a one-woman show about Dickens' women, and this book accompanies the show by building on the script and expanding to include many more of the female characters Dickens described and analyzed so astutely in his novels. "Mrs Pipchin was a marvellous ill-favoured, ill-conditioned old lady, of a stooping figure, with a mottled face, like bad marble, a hook nose, and a hard grey eye, that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil without sustaining any injury."

British & Irish

Hesperus Press

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