Little Nell is a character in which Dickens novel?
"images of poverty and crime: it challenged middle class polemics about criminals, making impossible any pretence to ignorance about what poverty entailed. Dickens is often described as using idealised characters and highly sentimental scenes to contrast with his caricatures and the ugly social truths he reveals. The story of Nell Trent in ""The Old Curiosity Shop"" (1841) was received as extraordinarily moving by contemporary readers but viewed as ludicrously sentimental by Oscar Wilde. ""One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell"", he said in a famous remark, ""without dissolving into tears...of laughter."" G. K."
"he wishes the story to not be tied down to the miscellany within which it began. Most later anthologies published the short stories and the novels separately. Probably the most widely repeated criticism of Dickens is the remark reputedly made by Oscar Wilde that ""One would have to have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without dissolving into tears...of laughter."" Nell's deathbed is not actually described, however. Of a similar opinion was the poet Algernon Swinburne, who called Nell ""a monster as inhuman as a baby with two heads"". The Irish leader Daniel O'Connell famously"
"death is fictionalised as the death of Little Nell. Catherine's younger sister, Georgina Hogarth, joined the Dickens fam household in 1842 when Dickens and Catherine sailed to America, caring for the young family they had left behind. In 1845 Charles Dickens produced the amateur theatrical ""Every Man in his Humour"" for the benefit of Leigh Hunt. In a subsequent performance, Catherine Dickens, who had a minor role, fell through a trap door injuring her ankle. In 1851, as 'Lady Maria Clutterbuck', Catherine Dickens published a cookery book, ""What Shall we Have for Dinner? Satisfactorily Answered by Numerous Bills of Fare"
"Little Dorrit Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew. The novel satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned."
"confirmed to be a Thanhouser production at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival. The identification of the film as ""Little Nell"" arose due to head of the film having been lost. Adapted from ""The Old Curiosity Shop"" by Charles Dickens, the film has been shortened and streamlined for the single reel format. The film focuses on a grandfather who gambles himself into poverty. He dotes on his granddaughter, Little Nell, and desires to give her every luxury. The grandfather turns to gambling to try and earn money, firmly believing that luck would favor him. His gambling results in losing everything and"
"character. In the books, Nellie's family members are very minor characters, whereas the Olesons became major figures on the series, with several episodes focusing on Nellie or her family. Eventually, the ""villainous duo"" of mother Harriet and daughter Nellie proved to be very popular with viewers for their often evil, yet humorous, antics. The sketch comedy group The Nellie Olesons took their name after the character. Nellie Oleson Nellie Oleson is a fictional character in the Little House series of autobiographical children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. She was portrayed by Alison Arngrim in the NBC television show ""Little"
"Mary Hogarth Mary Scott Hogarth (26 October 1819 – 7 May 1837) was the sister of Catherine Dickens ( Hogarth) and the sister-in-law of Charles Dickens. Hogarth first met Charles Dickens aged 14, and after Dickens married Hogarth's sister Catherine, Mary lived with the couple for a year. Hogarth died suddenly in 1837, which caused Dickens to miss the publication dates for two novels: ""The Pickwick Papers"" and ""Oliver Twist"". Hogarth later became the inspiration for a number of characters in Dickens novels, including Rose Maylie in ""Oliver Twist"" and Little Nell in ""The Old Curiosity Shop"". Charles and Catherine"
"to rumours they had been lovers. That the two had a son who died in infancy was alleged by Dickens's daughter, Kate Perugini, whom Gladys Storey had interviewed before her death in 1929. Storey published her account in ""Dickens and Daughter"", but no contemporary evidence exists. On his death, Dickens settled an annuity on Ternan which made her a financially independent woman. Claire Tomalin's book, ""The Invisible Woman"", argues that Ternan lived with Dickens secretly for the last 13 years of his life. The book was subsequently turned into a play, ""Little Nell"", by Simon Gray, and a 2013 film."
"statement that Charles, while sheltering at Boscobel House about two miles away, ""had the pleasure of a prospect from Tong to Breewood (""sic""), which satisfied the eyes, and of the famous bells at Tong, which entertained the ear."" The bells he heard were the bells of St. Bartholomew's. During the escape Charles also spent the night of 4/5 September 1651 at Hobbal Grange in the parish of Tong as a guest of Richard Penderel. The village is remarkable mainly for its church, St Bartholomews, outside of which is the supposed grave of Little Nell, a fictional character in Charles Dickens'"
"Dickens' story provided inspiration for the web comic ""The Adventures of Dorrit Little (""http://dorritlittle.com/) by artist Monica McKelvey Johnson. Online editions Map Little Dorrit Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew. The novel satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable"
"with them from Furnival's Inn to offer support to her married sister and brother. It was not unusual for a woman's unwed sister to live with and help a newly married couple. Dickens became very attached to Mary, and she died in his arms after a brief illness in 1837. She inspired characters in many of his books, and her death is fictionalized as the death of Little Nell. Dickens had a three-year lease (at £80 a year) on the property. He would remain here until 1839 after which he moved on to grander homes as his wealth increased and"
"as if speaking directly to her: Dickens and Nelly become lovers and she finds happiness as his mistress and companion. They spend time in France and soon she becomes pregnant, but the child dies during childbirth. After saving a lock of the child's hair, Dickens signs the death certificate ""M. Charles Tringham"". Shortly after returning to England from France in the spring of 1865, Dickens and Nelly board a train at Folkestone headed for London. Near Staplehurst in Kent, the train derails killing ten passengers. Dickens rescues Nelly, and then, with her encouragement, pretends that he was travelling alone, to"
"only the first indication of the naivety of his outlook. However, he also believes that the satire against this man is tempered with compassion. Smith also draws attention to the fact that certain characters in the novel 'develop a pattern from Dickens's earlier novels, whilst pointing the way to future works'. One such character is Little Paul who is a direct descendant of Little Nell. Another is James Carker, the ever-smiling manager of Dombey and Son. Smith notes there are strong similarities between him and the likes of Jaggers in ""Great Expectations"" and, even more so, the evil barrister, Mr"
"avoid the scandal of it being known they were travelling together. Dickens leaves Nelly in the care of others, and tends to the injured and dying along the train. Nelly observes him retrieve a manuscript page of an episode of ""Our Mutual Friend"" on which he had been working. In the coming years, Nelly remains his secret mistress until his death in 1870. In 1876, she marries Oxford graduate George Wharton Robinson, twelve years her junior. The couple have a son and run a boys' school at Margate. While knowing that she knew Charles Dickens as a child, George does"
"Nellie Oleson Nellie Oleson is a fictional character in the Little House series of autobiographical children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. She was portrayed by Alison Arngrim in the NBC television show ""Little House on the Prairie"" (1974 to 1983), where her role is much expanded. Three different girls from Laura Ingalls Wilder's childhood — Nellie Owens, Genevieve Masters and Stella Gilbert — were the basis for the fictional Nellie Oleson. Owens was born on August 2, 1869, two years after Laura Ingalls. She had a younger brother; ""William B. Owens"" (1881-1934; played by Jonathan Gilbert in the television"
"the classic British music hall song of that period My Old Man, and as a character in Oscar Wilde's children's story ""The Devoted Friend""; Wilde also mentions how the call of the linnet awakens ""The Selfish Giant"" to the one tree where it is springtime in his garden. William Butler Yeats evokes the image of the common linnet in ""The Lake Isle of Innisfree"" (1890) in line 8: ""And evening full of the linnet's wings."" In the novel ""The Old Curiosity Shop"" by Charles Dickens, the heroine Nell keeps ""only a poor linnet"" in a cage, which she leaves for"
"Chesterton stated, ""It is not the death of little Nell, but the life of little Nell, that I object to"", arguing that the maudlin effect of his description of her life owed much to the gregarious nature of Dickens's grief, his ""despotic"" use of people's feelings to move them to tears in works like this. The question as to whether Dickens belongs to the tradition of the sentimental novel is debatable. Valerie Purton, in her recent ""Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition"", sees him continuing aspects of this tradition, and argues that his ""sentimental scenes and characters [are] as crucial to"
"writing during the months before and after the attempted regicide. Although Dickens took a strong interest in the case, Oxford appears not in Dickens's text, which was serialised in his weekly publication, ""Master Humphrey's Clock"", but in one of the novel's accompanying illustrations, rendered by Hablot K. Browne, popularly known as ""Phiz"". In an illustration for Chapter 28, Mrs. Jarley, the proprietress of a waxworks, is shown training the heroine, Little Nell, to be a guide. Although the novel is set some fifteen years before 1840, Browne was no doubt inspired by Madame Tussauds' London waxworks, where the exhibit of"
"at nearby Tong Castle, a short distance to the south-west, and the tombs and memorials mostly represent these families, particularly the Vernons of Haddon Hall, who held the lordship for more than a century. Later patrons, mostly of landed gentry origin, added further memorials, including the Stanley Monument which is inscribed with epitaphs specially written by William Shakespeare. The church was the site of a minor skirmish during the English Civil War and also hosts the grave of ""Little Nell"" from Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop, despite the character being entirely fictitious. The building is grade I listed and"
"pedestal included three steps and a die of 4'8"" by 3'4"" by 4'2"". By 1908, the association was receiving, and rebuffing, requests to move it to a more prominent place in the city. In 1911, the sculpture was mentioned in the ""Encyclopædia Britannica"" as one of the city's notable artworks. The sculpture was vandalized in November 1989, but restored. Dickens and Little Nell (Elwell) Dickens and Little Nell is a bronze sculpture by Francis Edwin Elwell that stands in Clark Park in the Spruce Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia. The sculpture depicts the 19th-century British author Charles Dickens and Nell Trent,"
"where he saw—and was affected by seeing—fettered prisoners. For the character Tiny Tim, Dickens used his nephew Henry, a disabled boy who was five at the time ""A Christmas Carol"" was written. The two figures of Want and Ignorance, sheltering in the robes of the Ghost of Christmas Present, were inspired by the children Dickens had seen on his visit to a ragged school in the East End of London. The transformation of Scrooge is central to the story. Davis considers Scrooge to be ""a protean figure always in process of reformation""; Kelly writes that the transformation is reflected in"
"but they end up at the Cratchits' home in the present, where we meet Mrs. Cratchit and her eternally hungry yet eternally sunny children, all 21 of them. The majority of the 21 live in ""a bunch in the root cellar."" Most of the characters retain their original Dickensian qualities. Ebenezer Scrooge is old and miserly. Bob Cratchit is the gentle family man who is the primary target of Scrooge's cheapness. Tiny Tim is crippled and heart-rending. Equally heart-rending is Little Nell from Dickens' ""The Old Curiosity Shop"", who appears as one of the Cratchit children. In typical Durang style,"
"fighting, for example, are immoral). The text incorporates a series of tract-like stories into an overarching narrative in order to illustrate these moral lessons. The stories of the deaths of two neighborhood children, Charles Trueman and Miss Augusta Noble, for instance, help the Fairchild children to understand how and why they need to prepare their own hearts for salvation. The faithful and ""true"" Charles has a transcendent deathbed experience (much like Charles Dickens's Little Nell in ""The Old Curiosity Shop"" (1840–1)), suggesting that he was saved; by contrast, the heedless and disobedient Augusta, who plays with candles, burns up and"
"Georgina Hogarth, both of whom were very close to Dickens. Mary died at the age of 17 in 1837 and Georgina, since 1842, lived with the Dickens family. Dickens referred to her affectionately as his ""little housekeeper"". After Dickens' separation from his wife Catherine, Georgina stayed with him for the rest of his life and took the responsibility of managing his household completely. Agnes Wickfield Agnes Wickfield is a character of ""David Copperfield"", a novel by Charles Dickens. She is a friend and confidante of David (the narrator and protagonist of this semi-autobiography) since his childhood and at the end"
"estranged son and Nell's father. The Old Curiosity Shop (2007 film) The Old Curiosity Shop is a British television film adapted from the Charles Dickens's novel ""The Old Curiosity Shop"". It stars Irish actress Sophie Vavasseur as Nell Trent, with Derek Jacobi as her grandfather, Toby Jones as Quilp and George MacKay as Nell's friend, Kit. It was broadcast on 26 December 2007 on ITV. The adaptation is in general very faithful to the novel. The most major changes are the deletion of Garlands and their household and the identity of the Single Gentleman (here called Jacob) who is changed"
"generally incapable of mentioning any one. Landor wandered around the country again, frequently visiting London, where he usually stayed with Lady Blessington, whom he had known at Florence. Mrs Paynter, and her daughter Rose Paynter were at Bath and Landor's letters and verses to Rose are among his best works. Rose later married Charles Graves-Sawle of Restormel in Cornwall. Landor met Charles Dickens and they enjoyed each other's company despite the age difference. Landor greatly admired Dickens' works, and was especially moved by the character of Nell Trent (from ""The Old Curiosity Shop""). Landor was affectionately adapted by Dickens as"
"many visitors including some from as far afield as America. Tong has been identified as the setting for Nell's death because Dickens' grandmother was the housekeeper at Tong Castle and whilst he was staying at nearby Albrighton to visit her, he is said to have penned the closing lines in the novel. Dickens himself confirmed this to the clergy in the church of Tong after publication of ""The Old Curiosity Shop"", with Dickens also describing the church as ""..a very aged, ghostly place"". The interior of the church has been described as being a ""splendid Perpendicular Gothic interior [that] attracts"
"favourite in the book will be—or rather is already—Bella Wilfer. She is evidently a pet of the author's, and she will long remain the darling of half the households of England and America."" E S Dallas, in his 1865 review, concurred that ""Mr Dickens has never done anything in the portraiture of women so pretty and so perfect"" as Bella. Dallas also admired the creation of Jenny Wren—who was greeted with contempt by Henry James—stating that, ""The dolls' dressmaker is one of his most charming pictures, and Mr Dickens tells her strange story with a mixture of humour and pathos"
"Snell takes refuge from the world by hiding out in a department store after closing (""If You Can Find Me, I'm Here""). Once there he finds a secret group who have lived in the store for years. The leader of the group, Mrs. Monday, permits Charles to stay after he convinces her that he is a poet. Charles meets and is smitten with a beautiful young girl, Ella Harkins, Mrs. Monday's maid. Ella, who is now 19, has lived in the store since she was separated from her mother at age six, falling asleep in the women's hat department. Ella"
"house in which he was born. The original manuscripts of many of his novels, as well as printers' proofs, first editions, and illustrations from the collection of Dickens's friend John Forster are held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Dickens's will stipulated that no memorial be erected in his honour; nonetheless, a life-size bronze statue of Dickens entitled ""Dickens and Little Nell"", cast in 1891 by Francis Edwin Elwell, stands in Clark Park in the Spruce Hill neighbourhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Another life-size statue of Dickens is located at Centennial Park, Sydney, Australia. In 2014, a life-size statue was unveiled"
"Ternan (nicknamed Nelly), who at 19 was 27 years younger than him, and the same age as his eldest daughter. It was September 1858 when she moved in accompanied by her mother Francis, who was an actress, and two sisters, Maria, another actress, and Fanny, a singer. After just a month Ellen and Maria reported to him that they were being pestered by a policeman, whom Dickens suspected of having been bribed by a man sexually interested in either or both of them. He complained of this ""extraordinary, and dangerous and unwarrantable conduct in a policeman"" whom he thought should"
"the main character in its sequel, ""Kushiel's Justice"". The character Lucy Snowe in Charlotte Brontë's novel ""Villette"" is given the nickname Diogenes. Diogenes also features in Part Four of Elizabeth Smart's ""By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"". He is a figure in Seamus Heaney's ""The Haw Lantern"". In Christopher Moore's """", one of Jesus' apostles is a devotee of Diogenes, complete with his own pack of dogs which he refers to as his own disciples. His story opens the first chapter of Dolly Freed's 1978 book ""Possum Living"". The dog that Paul Dombey befriends in Charles Dickens'"
"in 1914, which becomes the rest of the novel. Nell's story alternates between the perspectives of Nell Golightly, a seventeen-year-old girl, and the poet Rupert Brooke. The novel begins as Nell's father dies while tending to the family's bee hives. Because she is the oldest child and her mother is long dead, Nell Golightly decides finds a job as a maid at The Orchard, a boarding house and tea room outside of Cambridge which caters to the students at the University there. There she, along with several other young women, serves guests and cleans the facilities. She also helps a"