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Charles Dickens has often been criticized for his depictions of women, but, in his new study, Garnett (English, Gettysburg Coll.) shows that many of the women and girls in Dickens’s fiction in fact reveal his idealization of feminine goodness, a trait he idolized with an ardor nearing religiosity. Garnett gives readers more than a glimpse of the prolific author’s private life and the real women he loved, demonstrating that these living amours of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More