"Miss Dinah's Indignation" — Phiz's nineteenth illustration for Charles Lever's "Barrington" (November 1862)

Miss Dinah's Indignation

Phiz (Hablot K. Browne)

steel engraving

12.2 cm high by 9.9 cm wide (4 ¾ by 3 ⅞ inches), vignetted

November 1862

Nineteenth serial illustration for Charles Lever's Barrington(Chapter 37, "Cross-Examinings"), facing p. 301.

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Passage Complemented: Dinah Demands Background Information about Stapylton

Having learned that her brother has failed to glean anything much about Stapylton's "prospects" as a potential husband for Josephine —

"We want everything; everything that you heard about this man. Who he is, what he is; what by the father's side, what by the mother's; what are his means, and where; who knows him, who are his associates. Bear in mind that to us, here, he has dropped out of the clouds." (300)

— Dinah flounces out of the room. That old Peter has been too embarrassed to ask for such specifics conveniently plays into Stapylton's hands, but certainly his reluctance to disclose such information freely is suspicious, as both Withering (centre) and Dinah agree. In her petulance, Dinah overturns "a spider-table, and a case of stuffed birds that stood on it, as she passed" (301, the final page of "Cross-Examinings," Ch. 37). The serial number's curtain closes.

Related Material

Bibliography

Lester, Valerie Browne. Phiz: The Man Who Drew Dickens. London: Chatto and Windus, 2004.

Lever, Charles. Barrington. With 25 engravings by Phiz [Hablột Knight Browne]. London: Chapman and Hall, 1863.

Steig, Michael. Dickens and Phiz. Bloomington & London: Indiana U. P., 1978.

Sutherland, John A. "Barrington." The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford U. P., 1989, rpt. 1990, 48-49.

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