She shuddered to approach the pit
Felix O. C. Darley
1863
Photogravure
9 x 8.3 cm vignetted
Dickens's Hard Times, Household Edition, vol. 2 frontispiece.
Darley's second frontispiece refers to Rachael and Sissy's discovering that Stephen Blackpool has fallen down the Old Hell Shaft in Book Three, Chapter 6, "The Starlight."
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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.