Girl in a Blue Dress - Gaynor Arnold

In 1879, as Catherine Dickens - the wife of Charles Dickens - lay on her deathbed, she turned to her daughter, Kate, and gave her all the letters she had received from Dickens during her lifetime. She murmured, "Give these to the British Museum, that the world may know he loved me once". That one simple, yet moving, sentence inspired Gaynor Arnold's fictional 're-telling' of Charles and Catherine Dickens' marriage and life, in the novel the Girl in the Blue Dress. =====The Dickens Family===== I am including a brief biography of Dickens and his family here so that you can put the book in context and, in effect, is the plot of ...  Read the complete review