"Miss Pross Miss Pross is a character in Charles Dickens' novel, ""A Tale of Two Cities"". Miss Pross is Lucie Manette's no-nonsense governess and friend. She accompanies Lucie to Dover when Lucie goes to France to retrieve her father, Dr. Alexandre Manette, after his release from the Bastille, but her stout English patriotism causes her to stay in England. She is Lucie's constant companion accompanying her to the trial of Charles Darnay, to church, to just about everything. She is Lucie's shadow and protector, and overcomes her dislike of everything not English to accompany Lucie to France when her husband"
"Stories"", a 60-minute animation made by Emerald City Films (1987). These included ""The Ghost in the Wardrobe"", ""The Mail Coach Ghosts"", and ""The Goblin and the Gravedigger"". Stephen Jarvis's novel ""Death and Mr Pickwick"" (2014) is in part a literary thriller, examining in forensic detail the question of whether the idea, character and physiognomy of Samuel Pickwick originated with Dickens, or with the original illustrator and instigator of the project, Robert Seymour. The conclusion of the narrator is that the accepted version of events given by Dickens and the publisher Edward Chapman is untrue. The novel was published in 19"
"The Deptford Mice and The Deptford Histories series. Robin Jarvis Robin Jarvis (born 8 May 1963) is a British Young-Adult fiction (YA) and children's novelist, who writes dark fantasy, suspense and supernatural thrillers. His books for Young Adults have featured the inhabitants of a coastal town battling a monumental malevolence with the help of its last supernatural guardian (The Witching Legacy), a diminutive race of Werglers (shape shifters) pitched against the evil might of the faerie hordes (The Hagwood Trilogy), a sinister ""world-switching"" dystopian future, triggered by a sinister and hypnotic book (Dancing Jax), Norse Fates, Glastonbury crow-demons and a"
"by her guardian the British banker Jarvis Lorry, where she is brought up by Miss Pross. Ernest Defarge swears vengeance on d'Evremonde and will not rest until the entire family has been wiped out. Many years later Doctor Manette is released. His time in the Bastille has left him institutionalised and he initially finds it hard to adjust to life outside the prison. Jarvis Lorry and Manette's now-grown daughter Lucy come to Paris to escort him to England. On the journey back they encounter a young man named Charles Darnay, who is the son of Marquis d'Evremonde, fleeing France because"
"series), dark powers, a forgotten race and ancient evils on the North Yorkshire coast (The Whitby Witches trilogy), epic medieval adventure (The Oaken Throne) and science-fiction dramatising the ""nefarious intrigue"" within an alternate Tudor realm, peopled by personalities of the time, automata servants and animals known as Mechanicals and ruled by Queen Elizabeth I. (Deathscent). Jarvis' books for younger readers have featured anthropomorphic rodents and small mammals – especially mice - as featured in the Deptford Mice series. A number of his works are based in London, in and around Deptford and Greenwich where he used to live, Felixstowe, or"
"Charles Darnay is arrested in Paris as an aristocrat and an emigrant. When Madame Therese Defarge comes to the home where they are staying in Paris to try to induce Lucie to speak against the new French Republic (a criminal act), Miss Pross tries to prevent her. In the fight that ensues, Madame Defarge's pistol goes off, killing herself. Miss Pross leaves Madame Defarge's body there and escapes with Jerry Cruncher, but the psychological shock and the sound of the gun cause her to go deaf. Miss Pross Miss Pross is a character in Charles Dickens' novel, ""A Tale of"
"distracted ... that the rivers of the South were encumbered with bodies of the violently drowned by night..."" Later a crowd is ""swelling and overflowing out into the adjacent streets ... the Carmagnole absorbed them every one and whirled them away."" During the fight with Miss Pross, Madame Defarge clings to her with ""more than the hold of a drowning woman"". Commentators on the novel have noted the irony that Madame Defarge is killed by her own gun, and perhaps Dickens means by the above quote to suggest that such vicious vengefulness as Madame Defarge's will eventually destroy even its"
"Dove takes a job caring for British officers' horses during Boston's occupation. Johnny despises Dove and cannot bring himself to forgive him as Mr. Lapham counseled, but his thirst for revenge dies when Dove is persistently abused by his Redcoat masters. Dusty Miller - Mr. Lapham's youngest apprentice. Before Johnny's accident, Dusty idolized him. After Johnny leaves the silversmith shop, Dusty runs away to sea. Mr. Lorne - Rab's master and uncle by marriage. Mr. Lorne owns the print shop that publishes the Boston Observer, a seditious Whig (Patriot) newspaper. Mrs. Jenifer Lorne - Mr. Lorne's wife and Rab's aunt."
"The Japanese language premiere is scheduled for Summer of 2013 in Tokyo, Japan. The first Pennsylvania production was staged at Notre Dame High School (Easton, Pennsylvania) in April, 2015; it earned six Freddy Awards nominations. The musical opens with Lucie Manette as a child, en route from France to England. She is delivered by Mr. Jarvis Lorry, an employee of Tellson's Bank to the home of Miss Pross, who had been nanny to Lucie's now-deceased mother. Later, Mr. Lorry returns to the Pross household to tell the now-adult Lucie that her father, Dr. Alex Manette, has been found alive in"
"Maisie Dobbs (novel) Maisie Dobbs is a mystery by Jacqueline Winspear published in 2003. Set in England between 1910 and 1929, it features the title character Maisie Dobbs, a private investigator. Generally well received by critics, mostly because of Maisie's quirky character, the novel was nominated for several awards and received the 2003 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. It is the first in the Maisie Dobbs series. Maisie becomes a maid at the Belgravia Mansion of Lady Rowan Compton in 1910 at thirteen years old, after her mother dies, and she must help her father make ends meet. Soon"
"go on patrol. Dickens wrote, in a preface to ""Oliver Twist"", in March 1850, that in the intervening years his descriptions of the disease, crime and poverty of Jacob's Island had come to sound so fanciful to some that Sir Peter Laurie, a former Lord Mayor of London, had expressed his belief publicly that the location was a work of imagination and that no place by that name, or like it, had ever existed. (Laurie had himself been fictionalised, a few years earlier, as ""Alderman Cute"" in Dickens' short novel ""The Chimes""). In 1911, the Bermondsey Council opposed a suggestion"
"Robin Jarvis Robin Jarvis (born 8 May 1963) is a British Young-Adult fiction (YA) and children's novelist, who writes dark fantasy, suspense and supernatural thrillers. His books for Young Adults have featured the inhabitants of a coastal town battling a monumental malevolence with the help of its last supernatural guardian (The Witching Legacy), a diminutive race of Werglers (shape shifters) pitched against the evil might of the faerie hordes (The Hagwood Trilogy), a sinister ""world-switching"" dystopian future, triggered by a sinister and hypnotic book (Dancing Jax), Norse Fates, Glastonbury crow-demons and a time travelling, wise-cracking teddy bear. (The Wyrd Museum"
"The Deptford Mice The Deptford Mice is a trilogy of novels by Robin Jarvis, first published in the 1980s. They follow the story of a group of mice living in Deptford, London as they fight an evil cat god named Jupiter. In the sewers of Deptford there lurks a dark presence that fills the tunnels with fear. The rats worship it in the blackness and name it Jupiter, Lord of All. Into this twilight realm wanders a small and frightened mouse. Far from family and friends he perishes, and in doing so is the unwitting trigger of a chain of"
"in Whitby, the setting for The Whitby Witches trilogy and his latest series: The Witching Legacy. His first novel – The Dark Portal, featuring the popular Deptford Mice – was the runner up for the Smarties book prize in 1989. His work has been described as ""Genre Busting"" and ""original, spooky, unusual, psychological supernatural horror fantasy with a very modern twist"". Jarvis has said that he is not a writer of horror fiction, however his work has also been compared to that of ""…Stephen King, but for Young Adults."" The Deptford Mice was adapted and dramatised by Tiny Dog Productions,"
"historically prominent citizens having both Northern and Southern sympathies. St. Louis was also the pre-war home of both Ulysses Grant and William T. Sherman, each of whom is depicted in the book. Romantic tension develops between the four main characters: one, Virginia ""Jinny"" Carvel, the fashionable daughter of Comyn Carvel, a southern gentleman of the old school; another, Clarence Maxwell Colfax, her n'er-do-well cousin who becomes a stalwart cavalier in the Southern cause in an effort to win Jinny's approval; the third, Stephen A. Brice, an earnest young lawyer from Boston who antagonizes Virginia by his zeal for Abraham Lincoln's"
"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."
"to elevate her prose past the common romance, and what might have been a journey through a strata of England between the wars is instead just simple, convenient and contrived."" NPR book critic Maureen Corrigan noted that the coincidences in the plot are too ""wopping"", but commented that the secondary characters are ""winning"" and Maisie herself is what truly draws readers in as ""part clairvoyant, part intellectual, and part new age therapist"". Maisie Dobbs (novel) Maisie Dobbs is a mystery by Jacqueline Winspear published in 2003. Set in England between 1910 and 1929, it features the title character Maisie Dobbs,"
"Charles Dickens novels are littered with stock-market speculations, villains, swindlers and fictional speculators. Little Dorrit (1857) The financial house of Mr Merdle; Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) 'Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Company, modeled loosely on the South Sea Bubble,- is in essence a classic Ponzi scheme; Nicholas Nickleby (1839) Ralph Nickleby's great Joint Stock Company, United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company; David Copperfield (1850) the false accounting by the sycophant Uriah Heep, clerk to lawyer Mr Wickfield; South Sea Company The South Sea Company (officially The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain,"
"""The Pickwick Papers"" (1836–1837), ""David Copperfield"" (1849–1850), and most extensively in ""Little Dorrit"" (1855–1857), whose main character, Amy, is born in the Marshalsea. Trey Philpotts writes that every detail about the Marshalsea in ""Little Dorrit"" reflects the real prison of the 1820s. According to Philpotts, Dickens rarely made mistakes and did not exaggerate; if anything, he downplayed the licentiousness of Marshalsea life, perhaps to protect Victorian sensibilities. Like the first Marshalsea, the second was notoriously cramped. In 1827, 414 out of its 630 debtors were there for debts under £20; 1,890 people in Southwark were imprisoned that year for a"
"Gradgrind - a younger sister of Tom and Louisa Gradgrind who spends a lot of time with Sissy Jupe. She is cheerful, affectionate and despite looking similar to Louisa, in personality she is opposite. Dickens wished to educate readers about the working conditions of some of the factories in the industrial towns of Manchester, and Preston, to ""strike the heaviest blow in my power"", and as well to confront the assumption that prosperity runs parallel to morality. This notion he systematically deconstructed in through his portrayal of the moral monsters, Mr. Bounderby and James Harthouse. Dickens also believed in the"
"from his grave. Resurrection is a major theme in the novel. In Jarvis Lorry's thoughts of Dr. Manette, resurrection is first spotted as a theme. It is also the last theme: Carton's sacrifice. Dickens originally wanted to call the entire novel ""Recalled to Life"". (This instead became the title of the first of the novel's three ""books"".) Jerry is also part of the recurring theme: he himself is involved in death and resurrection in ways the reader does not yet know. The first piece of foreshadowing comes in his remark to himself: ""You'd be in a blazing bad way, if"
"Dobbs is a private investigator who untangles painful and shameful secrets stemming from war experiences. A gifted working class girl, she received an unusual education thanks to the patronage of her employer. She interrupts her education to work as a nurse in the war, falls in love and suffers her own loss. After the war, again with help from her patron, she sets up as an investigator. Dobbs places emphasis on achieving healing for her clients and insists they comply with her ethical approach. Jacqueline Winspear Jacqueline Winspear is a mystery writer, author of the ""Maisie Dobbs"" series of books"
"Mrs. Lorne sees through Johnny's arrogant exterior to treat him as a lonely boy. She becomes like a mother to him and is the actual mother of an infant son who is unmistakably a Silsbee. Johnny nicknames him ""Rabbit"", as a word play on Rab's name. Jonathan Lyte - A wealthy Boston merchant and Johnny's great-uncle. Crooked and cruel, Lyte tries to make a profit by making friends on both sides of the colonial struggle, the Loyalists and the Patriots, but as tensions mount in Boston, Lyte is exposed as a Tory (Loyalist). He becomes gravely ill after his country"
"Martin Jarvis. A third set (""The Dead Harlequin"", ""The Man from the Sea"", ""Harlequin's Lane"") was broadcast 6–8 September 2011 on BBC Radio 4 and again performed by Martin Jarvis. The readings have since been rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra. In Agatha Christie's """", she claims that Quin and Satterthwaite became two of her favourite characters. The latter appeared in the 1935 novel, ""Three Act Tragedy"". Outside of this collection, Quin appeared in two further short stories: ""The Harlequin Tea Set"" and ""The Love Detectives"", which were both included in the 1992 UK collection ""Problem at Pollensa Bay"". In"
"Maisie Dobbs Maisie Dobbs is a fictional character created by the author Jacqueline Winspear. Dobbs is a ""psychologist and investigator"" in post–World War I London. A nurse during the war, she returned to London to work with her mentor, the accomplished detective Dr. Maurice Blanche. When Blanche retires, Dobbs opens her own detective agency. Maisie Dobbs, daughter of a costermonger, spent her early life as a maid in the household of Lord Julian and Lady Rowan Compton. Fourteen books have been published in the Maisie Dobbs series: ""Maisie Dobbs"" (2003) was chosen as one of ""Publishers Weekly""'s Best Mysteries of"
"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"
"upper-class, Eastern-seaboard society in which she had grown up. One of her finest books, ""The Age of Innocence"", centers on a man who chooses to marry a conventional, socially acceptable woman rather than a fascinating outsider. At about the same time, Stephen Crane (1871–1900), best known for his Civil War novel ""The Red Badge of Courage"", depicted the life of New York City prostitutes in """". And in ""Sister Carrie"", Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) portrayed a country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman. Hamlin Garland and Frank Norris wrote about the problems of American farmers and other"
"The Oaken Throne The Oaken Throne is the second novel in the Deptford Histories Trilogy by Robin Jarvis (first published in 1993). Set hundreds of years before the Deptford Mice Trilogy in the Middle Ages, the story tells the tale of the squirrel maiden Ysabelle, daughter of the ruler of the Hazel Realm, Lady Ninnia, and Vespertilio (or Vesper), a young bat. The story begins in a ruined tower in London where the Bats live, and they are readying themselves to go to war to fight the squirrels. They believe that the Starwife, ruler of the black squirrels, has stolen"
"Paris, Berlin, and the Eastern Bloc at the dawn of the New World Order. As much a shattering portrait of a Holocaust survivor as portrait of a marriage, ""Torpor"" is also the portrait of a lady rarely found in literature: a down-and-out intellectual bearing witness to a culture in collapse. In ""Torpor"", Kraus shifts out of the first-person narration of ""I Love Dick"", employing a kind of free-indirect discourse. In naming her central characters Sylvie and Jerome, Kraus alludes to the hapless, interchangeable protagonists of George Perec's first novel, ""Les Choses"". Perec, a childhood friend of both ""Torpor""'s Jerome and"
"The position often features in fiction. One notable character is Ebeneezer Scrooge's charwoman Mrs. Dilber who appears in Charles Dickens's ""A Christmas Carol"". In 1926, Lord Dunsany's fantasy novel, ""The Charwoman's Shadow"" was published to good reviews. Another well-known fictional charwoman is Ada Harris, the central character in Paul Gallico's novel ""Mrs 'Arris goes to Paris"" and its three sequels. In the British radio comedy series ""It's That Man Again,"" Dorothy Summers played the part of Mrs Mopp, an office char whose catch phrase was ""Can I do you now, Sir?"" (i.e., ""May I clean your office now, Sir?"" but"
"discovered in the church's crypt by author Stephen Jarvis. The tombstone has since been acquired by the Charles Dickens Museum at 48 Doughty Street, London where it went on permanent public display from 27 July 2010. In his 2014 novel , which is part dramatised fictional biography of Seymour, part forensic analysis of the ""authorial"" controversy, part socio-literary history of the entire Pickwick phenomenon, Stephen Jarvis puts together a substantial case against Dickens's and Chapman's accepted version of events. This is plausibly based on inconsistencies in Dickens's various prefaces to the book and flaws in Chapman's supporting testimony, as well"
"It is still available as an e-book. All three are still available though Amazon. Fender Lizards Fender Lizards is a novel written by American author Joe R. Lansdale. It tells the story of 17 year old Dorothy ""Dot"" Sherman growing up in East Texas. 17-year-old Dot Sherman is growing up in a small town in East Texas, living in a double wide trailer with her mother, grandmother, and little brother. When she was 12 her father went to get a pack of cigarettes and never returned. Dot works at the local ""Dairy Bob"" named after Bob the owner. All the"
"Fender Lizards Fender Lizards is a novel written by American author Joe R. Lansdale. It tells the story of 17 year old Dorothy ""Dot"" Sherman growing up in East Texas. 17-year-old Dot Sherman is growing up in a small town in East Texas, living in a double wide trailer with her mother, grandmother, and little brother. When she was 12 her father went to get a pack of cigarettes and never returned. Dot works at the local ""Dairy Bob"" named after Bob the owner. All the girls serve their customers on roller skates and have nicknamed themselves ""Fender Lizards"". The"