![]() In Girl in a Blue Dress, celebrated Victorian author Charles Dickens is Alfred Gibson, ' The One and Only, Yours Truly, the Great Original'. ![]() Dickens' wife Catherine (represented by the fictional Dorothea ' Dodo' Gibson in the novel) seemed like such a wimp - in accepting her husband's dismissal of her from his and their children's lives - that I felt like railing at her after his death just as her spirited daughter Kitty (the child most like her father) did. What pulled me through Gaynor Arnold's Girl in a Blue Dress: A Novel Inspired by the Life and Marriage of Charles Dickens was a burning desire for the worm to turn. ![]() Girl in a Blue Dress: A Novel Inspired by the Life and Marriage of Charles Dickens by Gaynor Arnold ![]()
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