Mary Angela Dickens

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Between the late 1880s and mid-1920s MAD produced writing that was, like her life, shaped by her relationships with family members and her roles in the literary venues they established. Her body of work is varied. It includes novels and short stories that frequently explore how women's erotic relationships with men inform their creative, social lives. Along with her fiction, she published interviews, religious writing, and adaptations of stories by her grandfather, Charles Dickens .
Black and white, head-and-shoulder photograph of Mary Angela Dickens looking straight at the camera. Her dark hair is short and curly; she has glasses perched on her nose, and her dress is masculine: a white shirt with a high, stiff collar and a dark bow tie outside it.

Milestones

31 October 1862

MAD was born at 46 Gloucester Road in Kensington.
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15 and 22 June 1889

At the beginning of her literary career, MAD published Her Inheritance: A Strange Story, In Three Chapters in two issues of All the Year Round.
Dickens, Mary Angela. “Her Inheritance: A Strange Story, In Three Chapters”. All the Year Round, Vol.
3
, No. 23, 24, pp. 565 - 70, 589.
565-70, 589-93

28 March-19 September 1891

All the Year Round published MAD 's best-known novel, Cross Currents, in serial form. Chapman and Hall issued the novel in three volumes during the same year.
Bassett, Troy J. “Title Information at the Circulating Library”. At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901.

1928

MAD published a biography, Mother Magdalen Taylor: Foundress of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God, about Frances Margaret Taylor , nurse, writer, and founder of the Congregation of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
OCLC
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
ODNB under Taylor

7 February 1948

MAD died in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, exactly 136 years after her grandfather Charles Dickens was born.
Christodoulou, Glenn A. “The Grave of Mary Angela Dickens Rediscovered”. The Dickensian, Vol.
109
, No. 489, pp. 42-43.
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Biography

Birth

31 October 1862

MAD was born at 46 Gloucester Road in Kensington.
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