Little Dorrit grows up in Marshalsea prison, where her father is confined for his debts, and she helps to feed the family with her needlework until her father receives an inheritance when she is in her teens, and more problems ensue.
year: 1979, 2009, 1953, 1980, 1951, 1998, 1992
call number/section: 1000
subjects: children of prisoners, london, fiction, england, social life and customs, 19th century, fiction, inheritance and succession, debt, imprisonment for, fathers and daughters, london (england), love stories, marshalsea prison (southwark, london, england), fiction, debt, social conditions, didactic fiction
Editions
Dickens, Charles
Oxford University Press (1979)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Penguin Books (2009)
Amy Dorrit struggles to save her family from being crushed by poverty and then corrupted by sudden wealth.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Oxford University Press (1953)
Amy Dorrit struggles to save her family from being crushed by poverty and then corrupted by sudden wealth in nineteenth-century England.
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
New American Library (1980)
Amy Dorrit struggles to save her family from being crushed by poverty and then corrupted by sudden wealth.
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Dodd, Mead & Co (1951)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Penguin Books (1998)
Little Dorrit grows up in Marshalsea prison, where her father is confined for his debts, and she helps to feed the family with her needlework until her father receives an inheritance when she is in her teens, and more problems ensue.
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
Dodd, Mead (1951)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
New American Library (1980)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
New American Library (1980)
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
New American Library (1980)
Amy Dorrit struggles to save her family from being crushed by poverty and then corrupted by sudden wealth.
Schools: 0
Dickens, Charles
New American Library (1980)
Amy Dorrit struggles to save her family from being crushed by poverty and then corrupted by sudden wealth.
Schools: 1
Dickens, Charles
Knopf (1992)
The story of a family and the system of debtors' prisons as symbols of the social and psychological imprisonment of 19th century England.
Schools: 1