![]() ![]() Her recollections uncover deviousness and the frighteningly hypnotic power of the genius she married, but also raise questions about her own complicity in her unhappiness. The exhilaration of finding that she has much in common with the most powerful woman in England spurs Dorothea to examine her own life more closely. The Great Man’s will favours his children and a clandestine mistress over the woman he sent away when their youngest child was still an infant.ĭorothea hasn’t left her small apartment for years, and accepts her exclusion - until an invitation to a private audience with Queen Victoria arrives. ![]() The celebrated debut novel inspired by the life and marriage of Charles DickensĪlfred Gibson’s funeral is taking place at Westminster Abbey, and his wife of twenty years, Dorothea, has not been invited. ![]()
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