ASIN: B00JLGRX7W
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 255
“Give these letters to the British Museum so that the world may know he loved me once.” Poignant words, more so when spoken from the deathbed. Catherine was Charles Dickens’ wife and mother of his ten children. Yet, after twenty-one years of marriage, her illustrious husband plucked her out of his life and home, and labelled her an unfit mother and wife. In truth, he was enamored of an eighteen-year-old actress. Why didn’t Catherine fight? Why couldn’t she fight? Outside the Magic Circle is as much Catherine’s story as of most women of those times.FROM REVIEWS I found it a fascinating tale, although I may never be able to watch 'A Christmas Carol' again with quite the same affection. (Marilyn Groves, Reviewer, Goodreads)It’s a love story, a story of betrayal and cruelty, and a wonderful astute and perceptive account of the breakdown of a marriage. (Amanda Jenkins, Top Reviewer, amazon ...
