3-047-173 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Little Nell, from "Little Nell and her Grandfather"', c1900. 'Often she would steal into the church, and sitting down among the quiet figures carved upon the tombs, would think of the summer days and the bright spring time that would come'. Nell Trent, also referred to as Little Nell, was a character in Charles Dickens' novel "The Old Curiosity Shop". 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]