Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claire Foy as Little Dorrit in the BBC’s 2008 drama series (BBC) So conscious of his devoted audience, Dickens might have been ...
The BBC has been adapting the novels of Charles Dickens for as long as it’s been doing drama. What’s new is the depth and breadth — OK, the length — of the latest TV versions, the most recent being ...
Rereading Little Dorrit this past summer, I was reminded of my diminutive maternal grandmother, born less than a decade after her "beloved Dickens" died, who liked nothing better than to spend wet ...
Her name is Amy, but she’s known as the Child of the Marshalsea. Before she was born, her father, William Dorrit, a gentleman, invested in a partnership that went bankrupt. He was brought to the ...
My Summer School assignment was going to be “Little Dorrit.” Not that I had passed up “Little Dorrit” on my high school’s summer reading list. It had never been there. Only the most standard of ...
Little Dorrit is not one of Dickens' best-known works, but it contains all the elements required for a compelling drama, as scriptwriter Andrew Davies reveals. "Television has not tackled this novel ...
The acclaimed period drama starring Claire Foy, has been hailed as the "best adaptation of all time" by viewers – and you can watch all episodes completely free on BBC iPlayer right now ...
Little Dorrit scared me terribly when I read it as a child. I had survived the scary bits of David Copperfield and even the appalling first scene of Great ...
The BBC's star-studded adaptation of Dickens's Little Dorrit is the perfect period drama for credit-crunch Britain. Serena Davies reports. "Little Dorrit is all about money," says Matthew Macfadyen.