A lot of us who have seen the BBC TV series o read the book of Little Dorrit might not know the great connection between the great writer and his novel, o might wonder how did he come out with this marvelous idea.
and now, before I relate to tu the connection between Charles Dickens and the story of Little Dorrit, let's know a little about Dickens:
Charles John Huffam Dickens was Born at Portsea on February 7th, 1812, the segundo Child of John Dickens of his wife Elizabeth.
there's a fact that some people don't know, that the Marshalsea was a real prison, which was used as debtor's prison until 1842, and then it was closed.
Charles Dickens' Childhood was spent under the shadow of economic insecurity, a shadow grew draker año por año as the family moved, first to London,then to Chatham and from there back to Londres ( early 1824) the boy might have had a successful career, but at that time, John Dickens had so many creditors, the family lost their fortune,and it ended up with the arrest of John Dickens and his removal to the debtors' prison of the Marshalsea John Dickens owned a baker £40 and 10 shillings, Mrs.Dickens with her four children went to the Marshalsea to registrarse her husband, young Charles was sent to work from where he walked five miles (8 km) every día to Warren's blacking factory, for six shillings a week ,and spent 10 hours a día in working, the family spent a few months in the Marshalsea with no hope of getting out of it, those three months for Charles Dickens are times of utter misery, humiliation and dispair, the memory of which he later confessed he could not quite shake off.
however a legacy came to rescue the family, it enabled John Dickens to leave the prison , to send his children to school, and give them proper education.
Charles Dickens mentioned the Marshalsea in these two novels: David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers , and described it with lots of details in Little Dorrit (1857) in which the main character (as we all know) Amy, was born in the Marshalsea because her father was imprisoned for reasons so complex that no one can how to get him out.
and now, before I relate to tu the connection between Charles Dickens and the story of Little Dorrit, let's know a little about Dickens:
Charles John Huffam Dickens was Born at Portsea on February 7th, 1812, the segundo Child of John Dickens of his wife Elizabeth.
there's a fact that some people don't know, that the Marshalsea was a real prison, which was used as debtor's prison until 1842, and then it was closed.
Charles Dickens' Childhood was spent under the shadow of economic insecurity, a shadow grew draker año por año as the family moved, first to London,then to Chatham and from there back to Londres ( early 1824) the boy might have had a successful career, but at that time, John Dickens had so many creditors, the family lost their fortune,and it ended up with the arrest of John Dickens and his removal to the debtors' prison of the Marshalsea John Dickens owned a baker £40 and 10 shillings, Mrs.Dickens with her four children went to the Marshalsea to registrarse her husband, young Charles was sent to work from where he walked five miles (8 km) every día to Warren's blacking factory, for six shillings a week ,and spent 10 hours a día in working, the family spent a few months in the Marshalsea with no hope of getting out of it, those three months for Charles Dickens are times of utter misery, humiliation and dispair, the memory of which he later confessed he could not quite shake off.
however a legacy came to rescue the family, it enabled John Dickens to leave the prison , to send his children to school, and give them proper education.
Charles Dickens mentioned the Marshalsea in these two novels: David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers , and described it with lots of details in Little Dorrit (1857) in which the main character (as we all know) Amy, was born in the Marshalsea because her father was imprisoned for reasons so complex that no one can how to get him out.