Monica Dickens

Monica Enid Dickens ( born May 10, 1915 in London, † December 25, 1992 in Reading, England) was a British writer. She was a great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens and also wrote numerous books. Was known in particular their Follyfoot series.

Life

Monica Dickens was born in London, where he attended a drama school and then worked as a journalist. Her first literary works dealing with autobiographical themes: One Pair of Hands (1939 ) describes the relationship between rich employers and their ministering angels. Mariana (1940 ) and One Pair of Feet (1942 ) against the background of the war events - Dickens worked as a nurse, then in an aircraft factory - emerged. 1951, the author moved after her marriage to an American naval officer to America about where they devoted several social projects, but their literary activity did not interrupt. In the seventies, the television series about the horses asylum Follyfoot as well as the book series came to, both became popular in Germany. 1978 published her autobiography An Open Book.

Works

  • One Pair Of Hands (1939 )
  • Mariana (1940 )
  • One Pair Of Feet (1942 )
  • The Fancy (1943 )
  • Thursday Afternoons (1945 )
  • The Happy Prisoner (1946 )
  • Joy and Josephine (1948 )
  • Flowers on the Grass ( 1949)
  • My Turn To Make The Tea (1951 )
  • No More Meadows (1953 )
  • The Winds of Heaven ( 1955)
  • The Angel in the Corner (1956 )
  • Man Overboard (1958 )
  • The Heart of London ( 1961)
  • Cobbler's Dream ( 1963)
  • The Room Upstairs (1964 )
  • Kate and Emma (1965 )
  • The Landlord 's Daughter ( 1968)
  • The Listeners (1970 )
  • Talking of Horses (1973 ) - non-fiction
  • Last Year When I Was Young ( 1974)
  • An Open Book ( 1978) - autobiography
  • A Celebration (1984 )
  • Dear Doctor Lily ( 1988)
  • Enchantment (1989 )
  • Scarred (1991 )
  • One of the Family ( 1993)
  • World's End in Winter ( 1972)
  • Spring Comes to World's End (1973 )
  • Follyfoot series Follyfoot (1971 )
  • The Horses of Follyfoot (1975 )
  • Stranger at Follyfoot (1976 ), German by Olga and Eric Fetter a sojourner on Follyfoot. dtv junior, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-07394-2.
  • Messenger Series The Messenger (1985 )
  • Ballad of Favour (1985 )
  • Cry of a Seagull (1986 )
  • The Haunting of Bellamy 4 (1986 )
  • More The Great Escape ( 1975)

In addition to the stories about Follyfoot you get apparently German translations of their works only available second hand.

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