Elizabeth Dickens WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 12TH 1863 AGED 73 YEARS". Charles Dickens used his mother as the source for the vain, ineffectual and verbally comic Mrs. Nickleby in his novel "Nicholas Nickleby" and for Mrs Micawber in "David Copperfield". 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
Brothers (Yu novel) Brothers (Yu novel) Brothers (兄弟, Xiōngdì) is a novel by the Chinese author Yu Hua which was originally published in August 2005 by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House. The book was translated into English by Eileen Cheng-yin Chow and Carlos Rojas, Spanish in 2009, and into Brazilian Portuguese and Hungarian (by János SZÉKY) in 2010. "Brothers" is considered to be one of Yu Hua's masterpieces.The novel intertwines tragedy and comedy, and Yu Hua himself admits that the novel is personally his favourite literary work. Divided into two parts (Part 1 and Part 2), the novel is about two brothers,