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"LITTLE NELL AND HER GRANDFATHER."
TEN GIRLS FROM DICKENS
BY
KATE DICKINSON SWEETSER
AUTHOR OF
"TEN BOYS FROM DICKENS" "TEN GREAT ADVENTURERS""BOOK OF INDIAN BRAVES" ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BYGEORGE ALFRED WILLIAMS
TEN GIRLS FROM DICKENS
PREFACE
As a companion volume to Ten Boys from Dickens, this book of girl-life,portrayed by the great author, is offered.
The sketches have the same underlying motive as those of boy-life, andhave been compiled in the same manner, with the same purpose in view.
Among them will be found several of the most popular of the creations ofDickens, notably, The Marchioness, Little Nell, Jenny Wren, and FlorenceDombey, and it is hoped that in this presentation as simple stories ofgirlhood, their classic form and beauty may arouse in the young peopleof our day a new interest in the novels from which they are taken.
This volume and its companion will have accomplished their purpose whenthey have won fresh laurels and a wider audience for the famous writerto whom they are indebted for their existence.
K.D.S. April, 1902.
CONTENTS
- THE MARCHIONESS.
- MORLEENA KENWIGS.
- LITTLE NELL.
- THE INFANT PHENOMENON.
- JENNY WREN.
- SISSY JUPE.
- FLORENCE DOMBEY.
- CHARLEY.
- TILLY SLOWBOY.
- AGNES WICKFIELD.
THE MARCHIONESS.
"THE MARCHIONESS AND DICK SWIVELLER."
THE MARCHIONESS.
The Marchioness was a small servant employed by Sampson Brass and hissister Sally, as general house-worker and drudge, in which capacity shewas discovered by Mr. Richard Swiveller, upon the very first day of hisentering the Brass establishment as clerk.
The Brasses' house was a small one in Bevis Marks, London, havin