Joe Indites a Note to Biddy

Joe Indites a Note to Biddy

Harry Furniss

1910

7.5 x 4.8 inches

"Pip lay in bed watching Joe set about his letter. At the writing-table, pushed into a corner and cumbered with little bottles, he sat down to his great work, tucking up his sleeves as if he were going to wield a crowbar or a sledge-hammer" [A much condensed form of the text in Chapter 57 in which Furniss has curiously shifted the narrative point-of-view from first to third person.]

Dickens's Great Expectations, Library Edition, p. 441.

Caption by Philip V. Allingham

This image is reproduced courtesy of The Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LF