Marshalsea


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Marshalsea

ancient London prison, long used for incarcerating debtors. [Br. Hist.: Benét, 640]
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Little Dorrit is a name with a literary burden, and so is Marshalsea, the old debtors' prison.
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She suffers throughout all the years of the Marshalsea, becoming a "fountain of love and fidelity" to her family and to others about her, like the mentally disabled and penniless Maggy and the destitute old pensioner, Nandy (192).
The gospel of Amy: biblical teaching and learning in Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit
on the green earth"; (24) in Little Dorrit (1855-1857), the narrator's repeated references to Judgment that accompany Arthur Clennam's penitential growth in the Marshalsea prison; in Villette (1853), Lucy Snowe's desperate search for consolation that leads her to dabble in Catholic practices like confession and to consider the allure of purgatory.
Victorians in purgatory: Newman's poetics of conciliation and the afterlife of the Oxford Movement
William Dorrit and his family are on a tour of Europe to forget the many years spent in the debt prison of Marshalsea, out of which the old gentleman bought his way after discovering he was the lost heir to a large fortune.
Anti-tourism rhetoric in Dickens' Little Dorrit and Pictures from Italy
When Arthur Clennam, recognizably a gentleman, attempts to discover the nature of the debt that is keeping William Dorrit in Marshalsea Prison, he is referred to the Circumlocution Office.
Bureaucratic oppression: its causes and cures
A fellmonger was arrested, and under the pretext of attending a play, a group of his fellow fellmongers gathered in order to free him from Marshalsea Prison.
"Not to be altered": performance's efficacy and audience reaction in The Roman Actor
When Dickens was young, his father and entire family except for himself were thrown into Marshalsea debtors' prison.
Classics? The dickens you say
For Charles, this occurred at age 12 when his father was arrested for debt and sentenced to the Marshalsea, an ancient for-profit prison where debtors were forced to pay for their own stay while gathering resources through day jobs, family, and friends to pay down their debt.
Charles Dickens, social worker in his time
See also The Case of the Marshalsea (1612) 10 Co Rep 68b, 73a; 77 ER 1027, 1033 (Coke CJ).
Conduct of laws: native title, responsibility, and some limits of jurisdictional thinking
(54) Having been born in the Marshalsea debtors' gaol, in which her father has been imprisoned for two decades, Amy has spent her entire life calling the prison home.
'The ghost of old Rome': Charles Dickens and the nineteenth-century experience of antiquity
En la toma de la Bastilla, obviamente, Dickens se comprometio, tambien, con el impulso de la sublimacion: demolido el simbolo de todas las carceles, todas las otras carceles, vulnerables, se derrumbarian, empezando por aquella en que peno, por deudas, su propio padre, Marshalsea. Eso lo ve bien Peter Ackroyd en su gran Dickens (1990).
Dickens: historia de dos lecturas
Googling a runner Amy Dorrit 3.25 Salisbury The central character in Charles Dickens' novel Little Dorrit, Amy Dorrit is brought up in the debtors' prison, the Marshalsea, until her family is released after inheriting a large estate.
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