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).
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.
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.
See also The Case of
the Marshalsea (1612) 10 Co Rep 68b, 73a; 77 ER 1027, 1033 (Coke CJ).
Just for the fun of it 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.
William Dorrit, having no largesse to dispense, nevertheless manages to restore, within the walls of
the Marshalsea, "the old-fashioned feudal realm that Austen's Mr Woodhouse works so hard to recoup" by accepting what he terms tributes from his petitioners that enable him "to turn his paltry dinners into displays of excess and mastery" (98).
In it Charles Dickens tells the ultimately heart-warming story of Little Dorrit herself and her stubbornly proud father holed up in
the Marshalsea.
After Jennings reached
the Marshalsea Prison in Southwark in May 1609 he continued to impress his captors and they continued to press the king for a pardon.
"There she is, the epitome of neatness, in the squalid atmosphere of
the Marshalsea prison making order and making her father comfortable and sweeping and cleaning and tidying all the time," said Slater.
Amy risks missing
the Marshalsea curfew to visit Arthur and thank him for financing Tip's release.
Amy risks missing
the Marshalsea curfew to visit Arthur and thank him for financing Tip's release, and Pancks takes charge of the investigation into the Clennam family's past.