Aug 30, 2008

Little Dorrit | Little Dorrit

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Author: Charles Dickens
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: 1820’s
Genres: Long fiction, Sensation novel
Subjects: Prisoners, Prisons, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Social issues, Poverty or poor people, England or English people, Inheritance or succession, Greed, Moral conditions, Bankruptcy or financial crisis, London, Wealth, Debtors or creditors, Finance
Locales: London, England

Places Discussed

*Marshalsea. Debtors’ prison in the London suburb of Southwark; a real place, but no longer a prison at the time Charles Dickens wrote Little Dorrit. Dickens’s father had been incarcerated there in 1824 when Dickens was twelve, and Dickens routinely visited his father there each morning. In the novel, Dickens heightens the effect of the imprisonment of William Dorrit by having the Dorrits’ daughter Amy—the “Little Dorrit” of the title—actually born there.

Aside from effectively preventing its inmates from satisfying their creditors,...

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Little Dorrit | Little Dorrit

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