ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Little Nell, fictional character, a frail child who is a major figure in Charles Dickens’s novel The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–41). Dickens’s account of her death after many vicissitudes is often considered the apotheosis of Victorian sentimentality. This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.

Detailed explanation-2: -The sculpture depicts the 19th-century British author Charles Dickens and Nell Trent, a character from his 1840–41 novel The Old Curiosity Shop.

Detailed explanation-3: -An orphan, she leads her grandfather on their journey to save them from misery but gradually becomes weaker throughout the journey, and although she finds a home with the help of a schoolmaster, she sickens and dies before her friends in London find her.

Detailed explanation-4: -Synopsis. The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and virtuous young girl of “not quite fourteen". An orphan, she lives with her maternal grandfather (whose name is never revealed) in his shop of odds and ends.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, 1841, first separate edition, bound from the weekly parts, binding variant. The Old Curiosity Shop was first published in this separate volume on December 15, 1941, bound from portions of Master Humphrey’s Clock.