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DICKEN’S PET DAUGHTER
The Great Novelist’s Favorite “Mamie” to Write of her Father
[Welland Telegraph, 18 December 1891]
Pretty “Mamie” Dickens was already considered by those who knew Charles Dickens best to be the novelist’s favorite daughter. To none of his children, perhaps, was Dickens more affectionately attached, and the “pet daughter’ saw much of her father under all circumstances. When even the dogs were chased out of the novelist’s study, Mamie was allowed to stay. The daughter is now a full grown woman, living quietly just outside of London. For the first time since her father’s death, Miss Dickens has been persuaded to write of him whom she knew so well. During 1892 there will be published in The Ladies Home Journal, of Philadelphia, a series of articles by Miss Dickens under the attractive title of “My Father as I Recall Him.” Fortunately for the thousands who will read what she writes in this series, Miss Dickens has a retentive memory, and she made copious notes during her father’s lifetime. She will tell in this series everything she remembers of her father; how he educated his children; his family life and his personal habits; how he wrote his famous books; his love of flowers and animals; how Christmas was spent in the Dickens household; how the novelist romped with his children; the famous people who came to the Dicken’s home, and his last years and closing days. No articles ever published have in them as much promise of telling the world things which it has never known of Dickens, and Miss Dicken’s story of her father’s life will be eagerly looked for in thousands of homes where the name of Dickens is like a household word.
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