Another big book that's taken me a while to get through. But I like biographies in general and the link with my recent reading of Dickens made it particularly interesting. The book is long and detailed - perhaps overly so - but ties in all the events of and people in his life with the stories and characters that he created.
I particularly enjoyed the account of his travels to America, which inspired part of Martin Chuzzlewit. I was also interested in his connections with Malvern, where I live, and Cirencester, where I lived previously.
All in all, an enjoyable, if exhausting, read. I feel I know a lot more about the man himself and about the Victorian world, a time that interests me particularly.
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