3-047-171 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Mr. Squeers and a New Pupil', c1900. Characters in "Smike and Dotheboys Hall", a story inspired by Charles Dickens' novel "Nicholas Nickleby". Wackford Squeers is a cruel, one-eyed, Yorkshire 'schoolmaster. He runs Dotheboys Hall, a boarding school for unwanted children. From "Stories of Children from Dickens", told by his granddaughter Mary Angela Dickens and others, with an introduction by Percy Fitzgerald, illustrated by Harold Copping, [Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, London, c1900]