The Internal Economy of Dotheboys Hall
Phiz (Hablot K. Browne)
Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby
1838
Steel engraving
Source: J. A. Hammerton, The Dickens Picture-Book, p. 151.
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Passage Illustrated: The Squeers's System of Education
Mrs. Squeers stood at one of the desks, presiding over an immense basin of brimstone and treacle, of which delicious compound she administered a large instalment to each boy in succession: using for the purpose a common wooden spoon, which might have been originally manufactured for some gigantic top, and which widened every young gentleman's mouth considerably; they being all obliged, under heavy corporal penalties, to take in the whole of the bowl at a gasp. [Ch. VIII, "Of the Internal Economy of Dotheboys Hall"]
Other Artists' Renderrings of the Yorkshire Schoolroom, 1875 and 1910
Left: C. S. Reinhart's American Household Edition illustration of Squeers' classroom management: "This is the first class in English spelling and philosophy, Nickleby" (1875). Centre: Fred Barnard's British Household Edition version of Squeers's spelling and philosophy class: The First Class in English Spelling and Philosophy (1875). Right: Harry Furniss's version of the "Domestic Economy" of the Yorkshire school: Mrs. Squeers dispenses a Delicious Compound (1910).
Related material, including front matter and sketches, by other illustrators
- Nicholas Nickleby (homepage)
- "Hush!" said Nicholas, laying his hand upon his shoulder. (Vol. 1, 1861)
- The Rehearsal (Vol. 2, 1861)
- "My son, sir, little Wackford. What do you think of him, sir?" (Vol. 3, 1861)
- Newman had caught up by the nozzle an old pair of bellows . . . (Vol. 4, 1861).
- Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s 18 illustrations for The Diamond Edition (1867)
- Fred Barnard's 59 Illustrations for the Household Edition (1877)
- C. S. Reinhart's 52 Illustrations for the American Household Edition (1875)
- Harry Furniss's 29 illustrations for Nicholas Nickleby in the Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910)
- Kyd's four Player's Cigarette Cards (1910)
Bibliography
Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Illustrated by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.
_______. Nicolas Nickleby. Illustrated by "Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne). The Gadshill Edition, ed. Andrew Lang. The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-four Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1897. Vols. IV and V.
Steig, Michael. Chapter 2. "The Beginnings of 'Phiz': Pickwick, Nickleby, and the Emergence from Caricature." Dickens and Phiz. Bloomington & London: Indiana U. P., 1978. 24-50.
Vann, J. Don. "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, twenty parts in nineteen monthly installments, April 1838-October 1839." New York: Modern Language Association, 1985. 63.
Created 9 April 2002 Last modified 7 April 2021