Little Dorrit (1855-1857) explores life in the Marshalsea prison, and the sufferings and deprivations of those who were, like Dickens's own father, imprisoned for debt; the novel presents a variety of imprisonments, including psychological ones. The 20 monthly serial parts appeared between December 1855 and June 1857, with the 19th and 20th installments appearing as a double number. Hablot K. Browne designed the wrapper and provided the illustrations.

Creator

• Browne, Hablot Knight
• Dickens, Charles

Subject

• Marshalsea Prison (Southwark, London, England)--Fiction
• Debt, Imprisonment for--Fiction
• Inheritance and succession--Fiction
• Fathers and daughters--Fiction
• Children of prisoners--Fiction

Publisher

• Bradbury and Evans

Language

• English

Identifier

• PR4562.A1.1855

Year

• 1855-1857

Date created

• 1855-1857

Resource type

• Book

Extent

• 20 nos. in 19, xiv, 625 pages, 39 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Ultima modifica

• 2020-04-13