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Catherine Dickens: Outside the Magic Circle
By Heera Datta
Amazon.com rating: 4.5
SPECIAL WEEKEND PRICE Sept 19 -21: $1.99 ( Regular Price: $6.49)
“Give these letters to the British Museum, that the world may know he loved me once." Poignant words spoken by Catherine Dickens from her deathbed to her daughter.
After twenty-one years of marriage and ten children, Charles Dickens forced a separation on his blameless wife and used his genius and his clout to malign her. He plotted her exit because of his interest in a young actress, whom he made his mistress. He lived a double life, used fictitious names, and took the moral high ground by insisting Catherine was an unfit wife and mother. He never met her after the separation, not even when their son died in far away India, and kept her away from the children. At the time of the separation, their youngest child was only six.
‘Outside the Magic Circle’ is Catherine’s story, told in her voice, sometimes reminiscing, at other times baffled, confused, hurt, angry. It has her tears, her love, and her quest for the meaning of her life, and marriage.
http://www.amazon.com/Catherine-Dickens-Outside-Magic-Circle-ebook/dp/B00JLGRX7W
By Heera Datta
Amazon.com rating: 4.5
SPECIAL WEEKEND PRICE Sept 19 -21: $1.99 ( Regular Price: $6.49)
“Give these letters to the British Museum, that the world may know he loved me once." Poignant words spoken by Catherine Dickens from her deathbed to her daughter.
After twenty-one years of marriage and ten children, Charles Dickens forced a separation on his blameless wife and used his genius and his clout to malign her. He plotted her exit because of his interest in a young actress, whom he made his mistress. He lived a double life, used fictitious names, and took the moral high ground by insisting Catherine was an unfit wife and mother. He never met her after the separation, not even when their son died in far away India, and kept her away from the children. At the time of the separation, their youngest child was only six.
‘Outside the Magic Circle’ is Catherine’s story, told in her voice, sometimes reminiscing, at other times baffled, confused, hurt, angry. It has her tears, her love, and her quest for the meaning of her life, and marriage.
http://www.amazon.com/Catherine-Dickens-Outside-Magic-Circle-ebook/dp/B00JLGRX7W
