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,
“... and his mother; the Micawbers, man and wife; Uriah Heep and his mother; Aunt Trotwood and Mr Dick; Dora and her friend Julia; Agnes and her father; but David himself, like other alter egos, is never quite locked into any relationship. It is as if the most natural meeting Dickens can imagine is himself alone in the presence of at least two others, who ... ”