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 ...

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Little Dorrit Season 1 is a 2008 miniseries based on the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. It follows the story of Amy Dorrit, a young woman born into a life of debt imprisonment. It also looks ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The great 19th-century novelist Charles Dickens possessed a distinct genius for portraying innocence and goodness with resplendent attractiveness. From little Davie in “David Copperfield” to Esther ...

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 ...

This timeless rags to riches story concerns the vacillating fortunes of the Dorrit family. The kind-hearted Amy (Claire Foy), the Little Dorrit of the title, looks after her proud father, William (Tom ...

Through the story of Little Dorrit might not have gripped quite as tightly as we might have hoped, so far it’s been full of unforgettable characters. At times there’s been such an embarrassment of ...

There is an eerie currency to Little Dorrit. With its entwined concerns of the weighty primacy of debt and money — which ripple out into complementary themes of destitute imprisonment and greedy ...