"Miss Miggs received her with a hysterical gasp" by A. H. Buckland: third regular lithograph for Dickens's "Barnaby Rudge" (1900)

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Miss Miggs received her with a hysterical gasp

A. H. Buckland

1900

12.1 x 8.0 cm, framed

Lithograph

Dickens's Barnaby Rudge (pp. 680), facing 192.

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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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Context of the Illustration

And yet here was this same Dolly Varden, so whimsical and hard to please that she was Dolly Varden still, all smiles and dimples and pleasant looks, and caring no more for the fifty or sixty young fellows who at that very moment were breaking their hearts to marry her, than if so many oysters had been crossed in love and opened afterwards.

Dolly hugged her father as has been already stated, and having hugged her mother also, accompanied both into the little parlour where the cloth was already laid for dinner, and where Miss Miggs — a trifle more rigid and bony than of yore—received her with a sort of hysterical gasp, intended for a smile. Into the hands of that young virgin, she delivered her bonnet and walking dress (all of a dreadful, artful, and designing kind), and then said with a laugh, which rivalled the locksmith’s music, "How glad I always am to be at home again!" [Chapter XLI, 316]

Related Material including Other Illustrated Editions of Barnaby Rudge

Dickens's Barnaby Rudge (homepage)
Phiz's Original Serial Illustrations (1841)
Cattermole and Phiz: The First illustrators — A Team Effort by "The Clock Works" (1841)
Cattermole's seventeen illustrations (13 Feb.-27 Nov. 1841)
Felix Octavius Carr Darley's six illustrations (1865 and 1888)
Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s ten Diamond Edition Illustrations (1867)
Fred Barnard's 46 Illustrations for the Household Edition (1874)
Harry Furniss's 28 illustrations for The Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910)

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. Barnaby Rudge. Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz') and George Cattermole. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1849.

_______. Barnaby Rudge. Illustrated by A. H. Buckland. London and Glasgow: Collins Clear-type Press. 1900.

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