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,
“... legend: his having been sent out as a child to work in a factory. Gottlieb gives the story on page one: Charles had endured a difficult childhood: when he was 11, his father, a well-meaning but improvident clerk in the navy pay office, was sent to debtors’ prison, with young Charles put to menial work in a blacking factory – a social disgrace that ... ”