Elizabeth Dickens Elizabeth Dickens Elizabeth Culliford Dickens (née Barrow; 21 December 1789 – 13 September 1863) was the wife of John Dickens and the mother of English novelist Charles Dickens. She was the source for Mrs. Nickleby in her son's novel "Nicholas Nickleby" and for Mrs Micawber in "David Copperfield". One of eight children of Mary Culliford (1771–1851) and Charles Barrow (1759–1826), Elizabeth Barrow was introduced to John Dickens by her brother, Thomas Culliford Barrow, when the two men were working at the Navy Pay Office in nearby Somerset House. When John Dickens first met Elizabeth she was "a small pretty girl
Brothers (Goldman novel) Brothers (Goldman novel) Brothers is a thriller novel by William Goldman. It is the sequel to his 1972 novel "Marathon Man" and is Goldman's final novel. Daniel Woodrell wrote in the "Washington Post" that "The ultimate significance of the title becomes clear only in the surprising, explosive twist at the end." The BBC later aired a radio adaptation. It had mixed reviews, with Goldman himself rating it unfavorably. In the sequel, Doc "Scylla" Levy, brother of "Marathon Man"'s protagonist Babe Levy, survives his stabbing. The plot concerns an effort to instigate World War III by means of simultaneous, worldwide terrorist