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