Charles Dickens and the Night Visitors Released in Time for the Bicentenary of Charles Dickens Birth
Summary
New York, NY, November 30, 2011 --( In December 1844 Charles Dickens, on holiday in Italy with his family, undertakes to give treatment to Augusta de la Rue, the wife of his friend Emile.Already an amateur practitioner in the new science of hypnosis, Dickens essays to evict the spectres that nightly haunt Madame de la Rue’s bedchamber.However, the author is kept mainly off-stage, the action being seen through the eyes of various family members, eight bystanders offering differing perspectives on Dickens’s traumatic relationship with Madame de la Rue.Already an amateur practitioner in the new science of hypnosis, Dickens essays to evict the spectres that nightly haunt Madame de la Rue’s bedchamber.However, the author is kept mainly off-stage, the action being seen through the eyes of various family members, eight bystanders offering differing perspectives on Dickens’s traumatic relationship with Madame de la Rue.