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Monica Dickens (1915–1992)

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Værker af Monica Dickens

Mariana (1940) 633 eksemplarer
One Pair of Hands (1939) 411 eksemplarer
One Pair of Feet (1942) 229 eksemplarer
The Winds of Heaven (1955) 203 eksemplarer
My Turn to Make the Tea (1951) 195 eksemplarer
The Happy Prisoner (1946) 118 eksemplarer
The Heart of London (1961) 103 eksemplarer
The House at World's End (1970) 103 eksemplarer
An Open Book (1978) 99 eksemplarer
The Angel in the Corner (1956) 97 eksemplarer
Flowers on the Grass (1949) 96 eksemplarer
Thursday Afternoons (1945) 94 eksemplarer
Kate and Emma (1964) 88 eksemplarer
Joy and Josephine (1948) 85 eksemplarer
The Great Fire (1970) 85 eksemplarer
Man Overboard (1958) 81 eksemplarer
Cobbler's Dream (1963) 79 eksemplarer
Follyfoot (1971) 78 eksemplarer
The Fancy (1943) 74 eksemplarer
My Fair Lady (1500) 72 eksemplarer
The Listeners (1970) 69 eksemplarer
No More Meadows (1953) 67 eksemplarer
Sommer ved verdens ende (1971) 62 eksemplarer
Spring Comes to World's End (1973) 60 eksemplarer
The Room Upstairs (1964) 59 eksemplarer
World's End in Winter (1972) 53 eksemplarer
The Landlord's Daughter (1968) 39 eksemplarer
Dear Doctor Lily (1988) 38 eksemplarer
Dora at Follyfoot (1972) 35 eksemplarer
One of the Family (1993) 29 eksemplarer
Is Anyone There? (1978) — Redaktør — 27 eksemplarer
Closed at Dusk (1990) 26 eksemplarer
The Messenger (1985) 25 eksemplarer
The Horses of Follyfoot (1975) 22 eksemplarer
Chronicle of a Working Life (2004) 22 eksemplarer
Last Year When I Was Young (1600) 21 eksemplarer
Ballad of Favour (1985) 21 eksemplarer
The Haunting of Bellamy 4 (1986) 19 eksemplarer
Stranger at Follyfoot (1976) 18 eksemplarer
The Follyfoot Farm (1991) 18 eksemplarer
Enchantment (1989) 17 eksemplarer
Cry of a Seagull (1986) 15 eksemplarer
Talking of Horses (1973) 13 eksemplarer
Scarred (1991) 13 eksemplarer
Yours Sincerely (1948) 6 eksemplarer
Follyfoot Farm (1973) 5 eksemplarer
"Evening News" Collection (1991) 3 eksemplarer
Portobello Road 2 eksemplarer
The end of the line 2 eksemplarer
The Great Escape (1974) 2 eksemplarer
Varsanjalan hevoset (1976) 1 eksemplar
...Edward's fancy 1 eksemplar
The Outsider 1 eksemplar
Storm Ahead 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Emma (1815) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver37,790 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984) — Bidragyder — 141 eksemplarer
A Diary without Dates (1918) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver81 eksemplarer
65 Great Tales of Horror (1981) — Bidragyder — 59 eksemplarer
The London of Charles Dickens (1970) — Forord — 13 eksemplarer
The Bedside Lilliput (1950) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer

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Juridisk navn
Dickens, Monica Enid
Fødselsdato
1915-05-10
Dødsdag
1992-12-25
Køn
female
Nationalitet
UK
Land (til kort)
England, UK
Fødested
London, England, UK
Dødssted
Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
Bopæl
Londen, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Washington, D.C., VS
Falmouth, Massachusetts, VS
Hinxworth, Hertfordshire, VS
Uddannelse
St Paul's Girls' School, London
Erhverv
cook
nurse
journalist
columnist
writer
fitter (vis alle 7)
debutante
Relationer
Dickens, Charles (overgrootvader)
Dickens, Cedric (neef)
Organisationer
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Samaritans
Priser og hædersbevisninger
Member of the Order of the British Empire (1981)
Kort biografi
From the publisher: MONICA DICKENS, born in 1915, was brought up in London. Her mother's German origins and her Catholicism gave her the detached eye of an outsider; at St Paul's Girls' School she was under occupied and rebellious. After drama school she was a debutante before working as a cook. One Pair of Hands (1937), her first book, described life in the kitchens of Kensington. It was the first of a group of semi autobiographies of which Mariana (1940), technically a novel, was one. 'My aim is to entertain rather than instruct,' she wrote. 'I want readers to recognise life in my books.' In 1951 Monica Dickens married a US naval officer, Roy Stratton, moved to America and adopted two daughters. An extremely popular writer, she involved herself in, and wrote about, good causes such as the Samaritans. After her husband died she lived in a cottage in rural Berkshire, dying there in 1992.

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Story about a widow and her three daughters i Name that Book (juni 2013)

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In the early part of World War II, Mary hears on the news that her husband's ship has gone down, with some casualties. Her phone line is down, and she has no way of getting news of him till morning, so she goes to bed and finds safety in thinking about something else... anything else. She begins to relive memories of her entire life... her childhood with her mother and uncle Geoffrey who is an actor, her idyllic days at her grandparents' home in the country, her first crush, her foray into dramatic school, her sojourn in France where she is swept off her feet by Pierre, and finally the moment when the puzzle pieces fall into place and she meets her future husband.
I had a little trouble with this book at the beginning because there was too much description and not enough dialogue for me, but that improved. But then I wasn't sure how much I liked it because, until near the end, Mary felt rather distant as a character. Towards the end, though, I really did like it quite a bit. I suspect it's just a matter of personal taste for the narration style.
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Alishadt | 23 andre anmeldelser | Feb 25, 2023 |
I dont remember much about this book except that I liked it as a child.Might have to do something with the children (the maincharacters) deciding to live by themselves at an old farm after their parent(s) either dies or has to travel.
 
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Litrvixen | 1 anden anmeldelse | Jun 23, 2022 |
 
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laplantelibrary | 2 andre anmeldelser | Apr 25, 2022 |
Hilarious! After literally deciding "I'm bored" and getting a job in the servant class, she bumps her way up the kitchen career ladder in just a couple years, making almost every mistake that she possibly could along the way. Her poor ability at execution means that the good employers send her away and she's left with (mostly) the bad employers who can't afford anyone else. It's a good thing she didn't actually *need* these jobs.
 
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Dirt006 | 5 andre anmeldelser | Jan 26, 2022 |

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Værker
63
Also by
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Medlemmer
3,868
Popularitet
#6,552
Vurdering
4.0
Anmeldelser
65
ISBN
287
Sprog
11
Udvalgt
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