Doctor Marigold
Published: 1 Dec 1865
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ISBN: 9781589637924
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Fredonia Books
Publication date: 1 April 2002
Description
Originally published in 1865, Dr. Marigold was extremely successful, as were Dickens's public performances of a play based on the story - fascinating and easy to read. Doctor (it is his given name) Marigold is a "Cheap Jack" or what we would call a street peddler. Doctor Marigold's fortunes reverse when he adopts a deaf and mute girl whose mother is dead and whose stepfather, owner of a traveling circus, beats her. Dr Marigold recalls an overwhelming passion across two cultures - hearing and deaf.
