Charles Dickens (Pic:Getty) Christmas time. Small Victorian house. Roaring fire... and a newborn baby. It's an opening scene that could come straight from the pages of a novel by Great Expectations author Charles Dickens. And the little boy you see here, cradled in the arms of his doting mum Holly by the fireside, is certainly a Pip off the old block. For three-week-old Joe Alan Charles Robinson is the famous writer's great- great-great-great grandson. His arrival has been so timely even his ancestor would have been hard pressed to have made it up. Holly, 25, gave birth to Joe just as Dickensmania was about to grip Britain, with nearly seven million viewers tuning into a BBC version of Great Expectations starring heartthrob Douglas Booth as penniless hero Pip........
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2012/01/01/meet-charles-dickens-newest-relative-his-grandson-six-generations-on-115875-23671651/
No comments:
Post a Comment