Mary Dickens
Mary 'Mamie' Dickens (6 March 1838 – 23 July 1896) was the eldest daughter of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. She wrote a book of reminiscences about her father, and, with her aunt Georgina Hogarth, edited the first collection of his letters.
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