Author
Monica Dickens
1915 — 1992
Monica Enid Dickens was a writer. Dickens was the great-granddaughter of the author Charles Dickens, and was born into the upper-middle class. She became disillusioned her privilege and became a domestic servant. Her experiences as a servant and cook were the subject of her first book, "One Pair of Hands," published in 1939. Her second book, "One Pair of Feet," was about her experiences as a nurse. She also worked in an aircraft factory and on a local newspaper. Dickens then married a U.S. Navy officer and moved to the United States. She continued to write and was a columnist for the British magazine Woman's Own.
Books by Monica Dickens
29 titles
One pair of feet
Monica Dickens
1942
Mariana
Monica Dickens
1940
One pair of hands
Monica Dickens
1939
Thursday afternoons
Monica Dickens
1945
My turn to make the tea
Monica Dickens
1951
The happy prisoner
Monica Dickens
1946
The house at World's End
Monica Dickens
1970
Enchantment
Monica Dickens
1989
The heart of London
Monica Dickens
1961
An open book
Monica Dickens
1972
The winds of heaven
Monica Dickens
1955
My Fair Lady
Monica Dickens
1967
The great fire
Monica Dickens
1970
Man overboard
Monica Dickens
1958
Flowers on the grass
Monica Dickens
1945
Scarred
Monica Dickens
1991
Cobbler's dream
Monica Dickens
1963
Closed at dusk
Monica Dickens
1990
Last year when I was young
Monica Dickens
1974
The horses of Follyfoot
Monica Dickens
1975
Kate and Emma
Monica Dickens
1964
The fancy
Monica Dickens
1949
The angel in the corner
Monica Dickens
1956
Cry of a seagull
Monica Dickens
1986
The messenger
Monica Dickens
1985
Miracles of courage
Monica Dickens
1985
The landlord's daughter
Monica Dickens
1968
One of the Family
Monica Dickens
1993
Joy and Josephine
Monica Dickens
1948