Charles Dickens and his pen pals - Tracey Turner

You've probably heard of a few writers\.
\* William Shakespeare and his popular plays
\* Jane Austen and her love stories
\* Charles Dickens and his big blockbusters
But have you heard that\.
\* William Shakespeare got mixed up in a plot against the Queen?
\* Jane Austen nearly became a Bigg-Wither?
\* Charles Dickens had his clothes ripped off by his fans?
Yes, even when they're dead writers are still full of surprises \-
and the eight in this book are more surprising than most. Now you
can get the inside story from their secret diaries, flick through
Good Day! magazine for some nineteenth-century gossip, and find
out all about the writers whose tall tales have changed the world.