How does he come to be mine?
Tim Parks: Dickens’s Children, 8 August 2013
Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens
by Robert Gottlieb.
Farrar, Straus, 239 pp., £16.99, December 2012,978 0 374 29880 7 Show More
by Robert Gottlieb.
Farrar, Straus, 239 pp., £16.99, December 2012,
“... of the older children. In Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens, Robert Gottlieb quotes the letter in which Dickens explains to his wife what happened: ‘Presently, we heard them come back and say to each other with some alarm: “Why, the gate’s shut, and they are all gone!” Ally began in a dismayed way to cry ... ”