Book description
A captivating portrait of some of Charles Dickens' most memorable
female characters presented by popular actress Miriam Margolyes to
accompany her hugely successful one-woman show touring the world in
2012. In his novels Dickens presents a series of unrivalled portraits
of women, young and old. From Little Nell to Miss Havisham, these
girls and women speak to us today, making us 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 analysed 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.'
