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 Nickelby 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 his eldest sister Kate had been engaged to a Captain of Napoleon's Imperial Guard, who disappeared, presumed dead, at Waterloo- In late 1815, Phiz arrived. Soon his official father too vanished without trace. The Browne children struggled on. In this vivid, lively memoir - the first full biography, long-awaited by Victorian scholars - his great-great-granddaughter Valerie Browne Lester tracks Phiz's path to marriage and fame, his travels around England and Ireland and work with Dickens, Trollope and the Irish best-selling novelist Charles Lever, and his packed private life. He was hopeless with money and had far too many children yet remained an eternal, sunny optimist until his death in 1882 - marke
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9780701177423
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95265623
Product Key Features
Book Title
Phiz: the Man Who Drew Dickens
Author
Valerie Lester
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
241mm
Item Width
162mm
Item Weight
600 g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Valerie Lester
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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