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Mariana. Monica Dickens. «El pasado, se tenía que aferrar al pasado, que era incuestionable. Era más seguro mirar hacia atrás, que hacia adelante». Cuando, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la radio anuncia el hundimiento del buque británico en el que sirve su marido, el tiempo se detiene para Mary. Mientras espera más noticias, y para ...
31 de dez. de 1992 · Monica Enid Dickens, writer, born 10 May 1915, founder of the Samaritans in the US 1974, MBE 1981, married Roy Stratton (died 1985; two adopted daughters), died Reading 25 December 1992.
Monica Dickens, the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens , gained first fame with books based on her own on experiences in working life. In 1970 she started to write the popular Follyfoot series for children. "I want to entertain, to tell the truth, to try to help people understand other people," she once said. "'I've been abroad.
Monica Dickens. Writer: The Lamp Still Burns. Monica Dickens was born on 10 May 1915 in London, England, UK. She was a writer, known for The Lamp Still Burns (1943), Love in Waiting (1948) and Life in Her Hands (1951).
Monica Dickens MBE was born in 1915, and was the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. Expelled from St Paul's Girls' School, she was then sent to a finishing school in France, before returning home to life as a debutante: 'The deb scene and the dances were absolute agony.
Charles Dickens' great-granddaughter Monica Dickens was the author of twenty-five novels and many classics for children, and one of the most popular writers of her day. Born into the upper classes, as a bored and unhappy debutante in the 1930s she took the incredible step of going into domestic service and then writing a book about it.
Monica Dickens (the great-granddaughter of the great Victorian novelist), is still remembered for her three books about her experiences of work as a cook, nurse and local journalist (all happily still in print), but her novels, once so popular, have been largely forgotten. The Winds of Heaven (1955) is a tragicomedy with much contemporary ...
