Dickens' Women

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|caption = Miriam Margolyes in 2008

|writer = Miriam Margolyes
Sonia Fraser

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|characters = 23 characters from Dickens' fiction and life

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|premiere = 1989

|place = Edinburgh Festival

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Dickens' Women is a one person show written by Miriam Margolyes and Sonia Fraser and starring Margolyes.

The play includes 23 different characters (21 women and 2 men) based on or inspired by characters in Charles Dickens' novels.

The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that the "elegantly crafted production puts the focus on the storyteller" (Dickens), highlighting his "obsession with youthful beauty and his baffling relationships with his sisters-in-law".{{cite news

|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts-reviews/dickens-women/2007/08/23/1187462391176.html

|title=Dickens' Women

|author=Bryce Hallett

|date=August 23, 2007

|publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald

|access-date=2008-05-17}} The Age noted that it "combines character sketches, short readings, biographical material and mordant commentary".{{cite news

|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts-reviews/dickens-women/2007/09/24/1190486196867.html

|title=Dickens' Women

|author=Cameron Whitehead

|date=September 24, 2007

|publisher=The Age

|access-date=2008-05-17}}

The show was developed in 1989 for the Edinburgh Festival,{{cite news

|url = http://www.lumiere.net.nz/reader/item/1415

|title = Miriam Margolyes on Dickens' Women

|author = Helen Sims

|date = 30 November 2007

|publisher = The Lumière Reader

|access-date = 2008-05-17

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080423234540/http://www.lumiere.net.nz/reader/item/1415

|archive-date = 2008-04-23

}} and Margolyes has taken it on tour worldwide, including a 2007 tour to Australia and New Zealand. Margolyes was nominated for an Olivier Award in 1992[http://www.dickens2012.org/section/theatre-performing-arts Dickens' Women on the 'Dickens 2012' website] for her original West End season of the show.

Dickens' Women was taken on a world tour in 2012 as part of the 200th anniversary celebrations of Dickens' birth.{{cite web|url=http://www.dickens2012.org/dickens%E2%80%99s-women|title=Dickens' Women Tour|work=Dickens 2012 website|access-date=20 December 2016|archive-date=2 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802140559/http://www.dickens2012.org/dickens%E2%80%99s-women|url-status=dead}}