Comments | scoradh: there's no tragedy in you

scoradh

there's no tragedy in you

Dec 15, 2008 21:00

Girl in a Blue Dress, Gaynor Arnold ( Read more... )

book glomp 2008, inside of a dog it's too dark to read

Comments 5

meritjubet December 16 2008, 02:02:52 UTC

I read a biography about one of Dickens' children a while back and it completely changed my opinion about the man. For the worse, obviously.

scoradh December 16 2008, 10:22:16 UTC

Ooh, do tell! Was it the one who married his friend and was disowned, or the one who followed the wife's sister around? Obviously I do not know their real names. But, HA! Dickens was a dick.

meritjubet December 16 2008, 10:33:40 UTC

Um. Now I want to know about those children! It was his favourite (and I bet that didn't start any complexes in the other children!). And he was such a bastard to his wife.

anonymous December 20 2008, 14:39:57 UTC

I think the unfinished book was 'The mystery of Edwin Drood,' but I haven't checked that and it could be completely wrong. I've never liked Dickens writing much but began to really loathe him as a person when I read this quote attributed to him "Mrs Gaskell would be a much better writer if her husband beat her more."

scoradh December 21 2008, 22:13:42 UTC

From what I've read, that sounds utterly typical of the man. Urgh.