January books
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emma_in_dreamThis year featured a lot of biographies, notably one of Dickens, one of Dickens' mistress, and one of his wife.
His mistress, Nelly Ternan, managed to reinvent herself after his death. She just eliminated the decade with him from her biography, pretended to be ten years younger than she was, and married someone. She kept it up her whole life.
Unfortunately, after her death her son inherited a box full of papers about her early theatrical career and letters. He put it to one side because it was 1914 and he was a soldier. He had a long war and wasn't demobbed until 1920. Then he read the letters and realised his mother had lied implicitly to him his whole life. He visited Dickens' only surviving son - no record of their conversation - but he came home and burned all the papers and never spoke of it again. He would not even allow books by Dickens in the house.
Lucy M Boston Curfew and Other Eerie tales 2014
Philip Jenkins The Great and Holy War: How Word War One Changed Religion For Ever 2014
Claire Tomalin The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens 1991
Claire Tomalin Mrs Jordan's Profession 1994
Robert Garnett Charles Dickens in Love 2012
Lillian Nayder The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth 2011
Artful Journallng 2015
John Frend and Mary Molesworth The Christmas Fairy 1878
Sir Edward Poynter: Classicist Paintings 2014
Ethel Turner The Cub 1915
Ethel Turner Brigid and the Cub 1919
Ethel Turner Captain Cub 1917
Carola Dunn Gone West 2011
Rosemary Sutclff The Roundabout Horse 1986
Mary Grant Bruce The Cousin from Town 1923
Martha Finley Elsie's Widowhood 1889
Martha Finley Elsie's Motherhood 1876
Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1849
Enid Bllyton The Naughtiest Girl in the School 1940
His mistress, Nelly Ternan, managed to reinvent herself after his death. She just eliminated the decade with him from her biography, pretended to be ten years younger than she was, and married someone. She kept it up her whole life.
Unfortunately, after her death her son inherited a box full of papers about her early theatrical career and letters. He put it to one side because it was 1914 and he was a soldier. He had a long war and wasn't demobbed until 1920. Then he read the letters and realised his mother had lied implicitly to him his whole life. He visited Dickens' only surviving son - no record of their conversation - but he came home and burned all the papers and never spoke of it again. He would not even allow books by Dickens in the house.
Lucy M Boston Curfew and Other Eerie tales 2014
Philip Jenkins The Great and Holy War: How Word War One Changed Religion For Ever 2014
Claire Tomalin The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens 1991
Claire Tomalin Mrs Jordan's Profession 1994
Robert Garnett Charles Dickens in Love 2012
Lillian Nayder The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth 2011
Artful Journallng 2015
John Frend and Mary Molesworth The Christmas Fairy 1878
Sir Edward Poynter: Classicist Paintings 2014
Ethel Turner The Cub 1915
Ethel Turner Brigid and the Cub 1919
Ethel Turner Captain Cub 1917
Carola Dunn Gone West 2011
Rosemary Sutclff The Roundabout Horse 1986
Mary Grant Bruce The Cousin from Town 1923
Martha Finley Elsie's Widowhood 1889
Martha Finley Elsie's Motherhood 1876
Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1849
Enid Bllyton The Naughtiest Girl in the School 1940
