Charles Dickens and the Image of Women Thanh Thuy Truong Skimin has a knack for

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leaving a remarkable artistic legacy and honing the skills that made him one of the Renaissance Men of the nineteenth century

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Charles Dickens and the Image of Women Thanh Thuy Truong Skimin has a knack forHow successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women? Dickens has been represented (along with William Blake and D. H. Lawrence) as one who championed the life of the emotions often associated with the "feminine." Yet some of his most important heroines are totally submissive and docile. Dickens, of course, had to accept the conventions of his time. It is obvious, argues Holbrook, that Dickens idealized the father daughter relationship, and indeed, any