The Boys of Dickens Retold
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, [no date].
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. Later printing. 139pp. Green cloth decorative boards with gilt titles. Illustrated. Modest wear to the extremities and a tidemark on the front panel with cracked hinges, good.
Item #161054
Charles Dickens
birth name: Charles John Huffman Dickens
born: 2/7/1812
died: 6/9/1870
nationality: Great Britain
Biography
English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature Random Dickens trivia - the first professional baseball team was the Dolly Vardens, a Philadelphia, PA all-African-American, all-female baseball team formed in 1867 (two years before the Cincinnati Red Stockings). Their name came from a character in the Dickens's novella Barnaby Rudge. The Dolly Vardens folded after a short time due to lack of support.more