"These resilient characters are very much part of our story." "Children's literature over the last 300 years has shown that rebels come in all shapes and sizes," said the show's head curator, Lucy Evans. Highlights include the first UK edition of Anne of Green Gables, color illustrations for Oliver Twist by George Cruikshank, and work by contemporary illustrators like Alex Scheffler and Jessica Love. Marvellous and Mischievous: Literature's Young Rebels revolves around forty books, manuscripts, and original artwork spanning over 300 years of children's literature. The British Library is celebrating these brave characters and others in a free exhibition running from Novemthrough March 20, 2020. 343).Going rogue takes courage, and what better place to cultivate that feeling than between the hard covers of children's books, where rebellious protagonists like Pippi Longstocking and Oliver Twist have long captivated young readers with their verve and spunk. 674-675).Ĭharacters such as Scrooge (miserly) and Pecksniff (hypocritically affecting benevolence) became defining terms in everyday vernacular.Ĭharles Dickens' friend and biographer, John Forster, said that Dickens made "characters real existences, not by describing them but by letting them describe themselves" ( Forster, 1899, v. 651), and Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield, based on his wife's dwarf chiropodist ( Johnson, 1952, p. There were a few instances where Dickens based the character too closely on the original and got into trouble, as in the case of Harold Skimpole in Bleak House, based on Leigh Hunt ( Ackroyd, 1990, p.
339) (his father), Mrs Nickleby ( Pugh, 1912, p. Often these characters were based on people that he knew: Wilkins Micawber ( Pugh, 1912, p.
See Charles Dickens' characters sorted by the novel in which they appearīumble the Beadle Charles Dickens' characters are some of the most memorable in fiction.
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