Emily Howes
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124 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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It was glorious.
I think it's one of the things I didn't know about the Dickenses.
I certainly didn't expect to be traveling all over the world and heading to Genoa and Lausanne and Paris.
They lived for a long time in Genoa in a palazzo, really extraordinary kind of painted palazzo with frescoes all over the walls and traveled all over Italy together.
Went to New York and toured America by railroad and everything.
So very rich life, even by contemporary standards.
Strong advice, yeah.
all his children really came from his marriage with Kate and they all survived into adulthood apart from one.
But they all had quite difficult lives, really.
Most of them had difficult lives, Dickens' children.
It's also quite full of interesting stories just on its own.
Oh, wow.
I would actually.
Yeah, and some of them, I mean, they went to India and Australia to live and had all kinds of... The research, come on, it's going to happen.
Yes, this is where I need to go.
Well, I think a lot of people writing historical fiction are interested in women who do extraordinary things and defy the odds.
And I always find myself more interested in people who kind of try to live within the odds and trying to find those small victories and trying to find some kind of freedom.
And I suppose Victorian marriages were so constraining.
It was such a tight and controlling era to be a woman.
It was a kind of gift for me to be able to look at.
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