... THE VERY DICKENS MONICA'S LITERARY BIRTHRIGHT. AFTER leaving school, MISS MONICA DICKENS travelled, came home and joined a dramatic school. She was a 1935 debutante, but gave up the social round to study cookery and dressmaking. She took a post as a cook and wrote 41 One Pair of Hands worked as a nurse and wrote 44 One Pair of Feet and is now in a munitions factory. Her third book is a novel, ...