"Rosa Dartle Enquires about 'Daisy'" — Furniss's twelfth illustration for Dickens's "David Copperfield" (Charles Dickens Library Edition, vol. X, 1910) (original) (raw)

Rosa Dartle Enquires about "Daisy"

Harry Furniss

1910

13.6 x 9.1 cm (5 ⅜ by 3 ⅝ inches), vignetted, facing p. 288

Steerforth more than once called me Daisy, which brought Miss Dartle out again. "But really, Mr. Copperfield," she asked, "is it a nickname? And why does he give it you? Is it — eh? — because he thinks you young and innocent?" — Copperfield, p. 297.

Dickens's The Personal History and Experience of David Copperfield, The Charles Dickens Library Edition, facing X, 257.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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