The Little Girls (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Bowen
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The late 1950’s or the early 1960’s, and 1914
- Setting: Somerset and London, England
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Girls, Children, Self-discovery, Friendship, England or English people, War, Women, London, Widows or widowers, Time, Nostalgia, Antiques
- Locales: London, England, Somerset, England
Characters Discussed
Dinah Piggott Delacroix (dee- NAH deh-lah-KRWAH), nicknamed Dicey as a child, the protagonist, a well- to-do English widow and grandmother. She is still slim and attractive, looking younger than her years (sixtyish); she is as spontaneous, willful, and imaginative as a child. Preoccupied with retaining the past, she is collecting treasured objects from her current friends to bury in a time capsule when she recalls the cache of secret treasures she and two eleven-year-old school friends buried some fifty years earlier, just before World War I. She...
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