Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens

The strange and varied lives of the ten children of the world's most beloved novelist Charles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created—from Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield—was also the father of ten children (and a possible eleventh). What happened to those children is the fascinating subject of Robert Gottlieb's Great Expectations . With sympathy and understanding he narrates the highly various and surprising stories of each of Dickens's sons and daughters