Pauline Viardot

Little Nell – the beautiful child in her gentle slumber- tide by Samuel Williams. Through her deathbed scene, Dickens channelled his grief for the death of his 17-year-old sister-in-law, Mary Hogarth. Dickens’s feedback to Williams was to make Nell childish and her surroundings grim to create a starker contrast.
Unpublished Charles Dickens Fan Letter Opens New Exhibition on Women in His Life
A new exhibition opening today at the London home of Charles Dickens brings tog