Charles Dickens

Doctor Marigold (Annotated) Charles Dickens

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. Doctor Marigold by Charles Dickens. Dr. Marigold, named after the man who gave him up, is a "wacko" who sells miscellaneous items from a travel cart. Her solitary fortune is reversed when she adopts a deaf and dumb girl whose mother is dead and whose stepfather, owner of a traveling circus, beats her. Charles Dickens - Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is considered by many to be the best novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century, critics and scholars recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read today. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens dropped out of school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtor's prison