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Mary Angela Dickens
1862–1948
A late-Victorian and Edwardian novelist and journalist, she also carried one of the most famous literary family names in England. As Charles Dickens's oldest grandchild, she wrote fiction of her own and later introduced younger readers to her grandfather's stories.
3 Audiobooks
A Valiant Ignorance; vol. 2 of 3 A Novel in Three Volumes
by Mary Angela Dickens
A Valiant Ignorance; vol. 1 of 3 A Novel in Three Volumes
by Mary Angela Dickens
A Valiant Ignorance; vol. 3 of 3 A Novel in Three Volumes
by Mary Angela Dickens
About the author
Born in London on 31 October 1862, she was the eldest grandchild of Charles Dickens and the daughter of Charles Dickens Jr. She grew up in a household closely tied to the world of publishing and literature, which helped shape her own path as a writer.
She became known as an English novelist and journalist in the late Victorian and Edwardian years. Her work included novels as well as writing connected to her grandfather's legacy, and she is especially remembered for adapting Dickens for younger readers in Children's Stories from Dickens.
She died on 7 February 1948. Although she never matched the towering fame of her grandfather, her career offers an interesting glimpse of literary life within the wider Dickens family and of a writer who helped carry that tradition into a new generation.