Charles Dickens 'rhetorical exuberance': Harold Skimpole in "Bleak House" is based on James Henry Leigh Hunt: his wife's dwarfish chiropodist recognised herself in Miss Mowcher in "David Copperfield". Perhaps Dickens's impressions on his meeting with Hans Christian Andersen informed the delineation of Uriah Heep. Virginia Woolf maintained that "we remodel our psychological geography when we read Dickens" as he produces "characters who exist not in detail, not accurately or exactly, but abundantly in a cluster of wild yet extraordinarily revealing remarks". One "character" vividly drawn throughout his novels is London itself. From the coaching inns on the outskirts of the city to
Dickens' Women worldwide, including a 2007 tour to Australia and New Zealand. Margolyes was nominated for an Olivier Award in 1992 for her original West End season of the show. "Dickens' Women" was taken on a world tour in 2012 as part of the 200th anniversary celebrations of Dickens' birth. Dickens' Women Dickens' Women is a one person show written by Miriam Margolyes and Sonia Fraser and starring Margolyes. The play includes 23 different characters (male and female) based on or inspired by characters in Charles Dickens' novels. The "Sydney Morning Herald" wrote that the "elegantly crafted production puts the focus on