Dickens's "Master Harry and Norah at Breakfast," by Harold Copping (1924)

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Master Harry and Norah at Breakfast

Harold Copping

1924

Line drawing in lithograph

4 ½ inches high by 3 ⅞ inches wide (11.7 x 10.1 cm)

From Character Sketches from Dickens, p. 17.

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Passage Illustrated: Cobbs, Norah, and Harry at breakfast in the Inn

"They consulted me at breakfast (they had ordered sweet milk and water, and toast and currant jelly, over night) about the pony, and I told 'em that it did unfortunately happen that the pony was half clipped, but that he'd be finished clipping in the course of the day, and that to-morrow morning at eight o'clock he would be ready. My own opinion is that Mrs. Harry Walmers junior was beginning to give in. She hadn't had her hair curled when she went to bed, and she didn't seem quite up to brushing it herself, and it getting into her eyes put her out. But nothing put out Mr. Harry. He sat behind his breakfast cup tearing away at the jelly, as if he'd been his own father. ["The Runaway Couple," Children's Stories from Dickens, pp. 15-16]

Related Material, Including Other Depictions of Harry, Norah, and Cobbs (1876-1911)

The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens

E. A. Abbey's "There's Love Lane" in the American Household Edition of Christmas Stories (1876)

Harry Furniss's Arrivals at The Holly Tree in the Charles Dickens Library Edition of Christmas Stories (Vol. XVIII, 1910)

Harry Furniss's Servants at The Holly Tree in the Charles Dickens Library Edition of Christmas Stories, Vol. XVIII (1910)

Harry French's The Holly Tree Inn (1911)

Bibliography

Davis, Paul. Charles Dickens A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts On File (Checkmark), 1998.

Dickens, Charles. Christmas Stories. Illustrated by E. A. Abbey. 19 vols. The Household Edition. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1876. Vol. 3.

Dickens, Charles. Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round." Illustrated by Edward Dalziel. The Household Edition. 22 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1877, rpt. 1892, 1910. Vol. 21.

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Dickens, Charles. Christmas Stories. Illustrated by Harry Furniss. The Charles Dickens Library Edition. 18 vols. London: Educational Book, 1910. Vol. 16.

Dickens, Mary Angela, Percy Fitzgerald, Captain Edric Vredenburg, and Others. Illustrated by Harold Copping with eleven coloured lithographs. Children's Stories from Dickens. London: Raphael Tuck, 1893.

Dickens, Mary Angela [Charles Dickens' grand-daughter]. Dickens' Dream Children. London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., 1924.

Matz, B. W., and Kate Perugini; illustrated by Harold Copping. Character Sketches from Dickens. London: Raphael Tuck, 1924. Copy in the Paterson Library, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.

Created 9 October 2023