On the Subject of Dickens as Super-Celeb

[ellejir]

> 
> Hmmmm.  That story is ringing a bell way back somewhere in my 
memory, 
> but wasn't it that the people were calling from the docks up to the 
> boats coming in from England: "Is Little Nell dead?"?
> 
> Elle (who has no idea who Little Nell was but is sure that there is 
a 
> Dickens-lover and/or English major out there who will enlighten her)


Whoops!  A ten second search on Amazon.com reveals that Little Nell 
is a character in "The Old Curiosity Shop", just as June said.

Elle again (responding to her own post, pathetic, I know)