Little Dorrit Working Notes

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Arthur and his mother ? - Yes / His old sweetheart ? Not yet. / The man who comfortably charges everything on Providence? Not yet. / Dorrit ? - Yes. / The Father of the Marshalsea / The Child of the Marshalsea /

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Turnkey / Ruined brother -(the clarionet player I saw at the Ambigu in Paris.) / Son & Daughter - she, a dancer /Dorrit.

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((Nobody’s Fault Little Dorrit __________ No. II. )

Chapter IV.

Family Affairs

Scene with Arthur and his mother / Flintwinch. / Lead through to Dorrit - Can she have anything to do with it? Watch her

Chapter V.

The Father of the Marshalsea

Dorrit’s father

Turnkey.

Father’s Wife — Dorrit born in the prison.

Mrs. Fl?nx Flinx

Dr. Haggage

20 years - the father of the Marshalsea - Proud of it

The Plasterer - friend

Chapter VI.

The Child of the Marshalsea

Dorrit’s Progress - Doll gets like the prison people / Turnkey perplexed how to “tie it up” — Never does tie [??] it up, but dies.

Clara?

Amy?

Fanny?

Ella?

/ She becomes the prop and stay of the rest / This was the life and this the history of Dorrit

Chapter VII

The Lock.

Arthur in the room - The Family picture - The Brother.

Tip

“Testimonial” -

Gets locked in, and has to sleep there. Parallel Imprisonments - his mother’s and the Father's of the Marshalsea -

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/ Arthur and Dorrit? Yes / Public Office?

and

"Aristocratic" ofQuarter ? Yes

/ M. Rigaud? Yes. / Baby and the Meagleses? Mr - Slightly

/ Miss Wade in the prison? Not yet / Her father? Not yet / The Theatre? Not yet. /

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(Nobody’s Fault Little Dorrit___________ No. III. )

Chapter IX.

Little Mother..

Uncle's lodging / Interview between Clennam and Dorrit

on the Iron bridge —

/ Make way for the Stiltstalkings - Stiltstalkers - Barnacles

Her protegée. Maggy - Bangham?

Maggy

/ My Little Mother /

Chapter X.

Containing the whole Science of Government.

How not to do it.

/ /Mr Tite Barnacle and his family

Mews Street Grosvenor Square / House like a bottle of smell. When the footman opens the door, he seems to take the stopper out. / "Look here. You know” - Young Barnacle.

Inventor. Daniel Doyce Bleeding Heart Yard

Chapter XI.

Let Loose.

Rigaud out / Comes on foot to Chalons and there encounters Cavalletto. At the Daybreak? — Break of Day?

Describe small auberge of that sort. / Little Italian runs away from him / Sunrise picture - Cavalletto making off in the red light down the long road __ /

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Charging everything on Providence? No / Miss Wade. Her surroundings and antecedents? No / The Meagleses? No / Bleeding Heart Yard? Yes. and the Plasterer?

[the above two lines are bracketed together, followed by the affirmative] / Clennam’s old sweetheart? Yes. Flora. Flora Casby / More of his character? Yes.

How he stands toward Dorrit? Hardly. Faint indications / Lagnier? No. / The Theatre? No. /

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(Little Dorrit. _____ No. IV)

Chapter XII.

Bleeding Heart Yard

Description

“Bleeding Heart, Bleeding Heart, Bleeding away.” / Plornish and Family. / Get [or Set?] Tip out.

Captain Maroon

Horse Chaunting. /

Chapter XIII.

Patriarchal.

Old Christopher Casby, the Patriarch. Wooden-headed old Booby / Unwieldy ship and Steam Tug - Panx- Pancks. / Flora “Mr F’s Aunt” Accident to Little Cavalletto. / Chapter XIV

Lead up, through the state of Arthur Clennam’s mind

to “Little Dorrit”

Late at Night. Nowhere to go to.

Maggy.

Chapter XV XIV.

Little Dorrit’s Eyes Party

“Spare my father, the giving him anything. Can’t bear him to be seen

by you in his moments of degradation. / Out all night - Woman in the street. /

“If it really was a party now!” -

Burial Register for a pillow. 'This was Little Dorrit’s party ???? The vice desertion, wretchedness of the great Capital. This was the party from which she went home.'

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Rigaud? No / Miss Wade? Carry on / The Meagles Family? Practical

Mr Mrs Pet Tattycoram

[the five lines above are bracketed together, followed by] Yes / Fanny Dorrit and the Theatre? Her Uncle?

[the two lines above are bracketed together, followed by] No / Mrs Clennam, Mrs Flintwinch, Jeremiah? Yes / Arthur and Doyce in Partnership? Pave the way / Mrs Flintwinch dreams again? Yes. /

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(Little Dorrit No. V.)

Chapter XV.

Mrs. Flintwich has another Dream.

Carry on the idea indicated in last Chapter of No. 1 / Begin (with a view to Rigaud catastrophe) the mysterious sounds in the old house. / Mr Flintwich “giving it to” Mrs Clennam. / Affery falls into a haunted state of mind-

Chapter XVI.

Nobody’s Weakness.

Tattycoram Miss Wade

Mr Meagles's house - Curiosities Pictures Sticky old Saints - mere Fly Traps

Daniel Doyce

Clennam falls in love with Pet. Decides not to - Quite clear not to. / So flows the quiet river - so many miles an hour the set of the current, here the lilies, there the rushes — nothing distracted - nothing put out - on, on, to the Eternal Seas

Chapter XVII.

Nobody’s Rival..

Clennam’s Rival.

Gowan — Henry Gowan. Languid artist career. You may put a man in a govt., but you can’t make anything else of him that he is not fit for.

Ferryboat Scene / Young Barnacle. Doyce sees how it is — [Rain??] Rain /

Chapter XVIII.

Little Dorrit’s Lover.

First suggestion of her being in love with Clennam (Sentimental) Chivery / Through Turnkey’s son - Young George? Young John Iron bridge again - Tobacco business / The family gentility - always the gentility Tombstone idea

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Fanny Dorrit? The Theatre? Yes Her uncle? Yes

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Start from the Marshalsea, carrying on from last No.? Yes

Miss Wade? No

Lagnier? No.

Flora Casby?

Pancks?

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No. Hold over.

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(Little Dorrit ——————————————- No. VI.)

Chapter XIX.

The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three relations.

The two brothers. ==

Condense, if possible, the whole fatherly character / Scene with the father and daughter / You have never seen me

“ No no, I have never seen him in my life!”

Chapter XX.

Moving in Society.

Family Pride

The Theatre / Indistinctly seen, as Little Dorrit saw it / Now Ladies — Now Darlings

Uncle in the Orchestra. Sunk from the upper sky. / Mrs Merdle — Bosom — Society, Society, Society.

The Shadow of the Marshalsea on whom? /

Chapter XXI.

Mr Merdle’s Complaint.

People like the houses they Inhabit - Suppose a dinner party of houses

Still Society - always Society - Everything for Society / Dinner and reception - Society there - Treasury, Admiralty, Church, Bar,

Physic / The Physician and Mr Merdle's mysterious complaint (, to wit:

Forgery Fraud & Forgery

bye & bye

Young Sparkler

Shadow continued

Chapter XXII.

Conference[s?] A puzzle

Mrs. Chivery - "Since in this house I have been," construction / Our John sits among the linen disconsolate — Says its like Groves. / Dawn of Little Dorrit’s love love for Arthur — Maggy -

The shadow of the Marshalsea Wall

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