Orphaned as a baby, Robinson began performing in local beer gardens at age six.Within two years, this young "hoofer," or song-and-dance man, was entertaining audiences far from home.
In the chaos, there has been a special outpouring of concern for the thousands of children who may have been orphaned.Jamila Trindle reports from Jiuzhou stadium in Mianyang, Sichuan Province.
This novel was writen in his later lifePip, a boy of the marshes, is being "raised by hand" by his shrieking harridan of an older sister and her seemingly doltish husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery.