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Phiz: The Man Who Drew Dickens - Lester, Valerie
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Phiz: The Man Who Drew Dickens - Lester, Valerie

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    ISBN
    9781844135349

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    Phiz' - Hablot Knight Browne - was the great illustrator of Dickens' fiction. For over twenty-three years they worked together, and Phiz's drawings brought to life a galaxy of much-loved characters, from Mr Pickwick, Nicholas Nickleby and Mr Micawber, to Little Nell and David Copperfield. But, from the mystery of his birth onwards, Phiz himself led a life as rich as any novel. He came from an old Huguenot Spitalfields family, ostensibly the fourteenth child of debt-ridden parents. But the Brownes' oldest daughter Kate was engaged to a Captain Hablot of Napoleon's Imperial Guard who disappeared in June 1815, presumed dead at Waterloo; Phiz was born the following month. Seven years later his official father, too, vanished without trace. In this vivid, lively memoir - the first full biography, long-awaited by Victorian scholars - his great-great-granddaughter Valerie Browne Lester tracks the struggles of the abandoned Browne family and follows Phiz's path to marriage and fame, his travels around England and Ireland and work with Dickens, Lever, Trollope and others, and his colourful private life. Although he was hopeless with money and had too many children he remained an eternal opt

    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Vintage Publishing
    ISBN-13
    9781844135349
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    92065414

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Phiz
    Publication Year
    2006
    Format
    Paperback
    Language
    English
    Author
    Valerie Lester
    Genre
    Biographies & True Stories
    Number of Pages
    288 Pages

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    197 mm
    Item Weight
    300 g
    Item Width
    128 mm

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    Country/Region of Manufacture
    United Kingdom
    Title_Author
    Valerie Lester

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