WorkCharles Dickens

The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Inferred

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) · 1841

InferredFuller explicitly names Dickens and alludes to a specific episode from *The Old Curiosity Shop*, chapter 57, where Dick Swiveller promotes his "small servant" to a "marchioness" and teaches her to play cards.

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Documented 1849

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I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Letter to Caroline Sturgis Tappan

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“I often think of Dicken's marchioness playing whist in the kitchen.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Fuller explicitly names Dickens and alludes to a specific episode from The Old Curiosity Shop, chapter 57, where Dick Swiveller promotes his "small servant" to a "marchioness" and teaches her to play cards.