Hard Times (novel) Gradgrind - a younger sister of Tom and Louisa Gradgrind who spends a lot of time with Sissy Jupe. She is cheerful, affectionate and despite looking similar to Louisa, in personality she is opposite. Dickens wished to educate readers about the working conditions of some of the factories in the industrial towns of Manchester, and Preston, to "strike the heaviest blow in my power", and as well to confront the assumption that prosperity runs parallel to morality. This notion he systematically deconstructed in through his portrayal of the moral monsters, Mr. Bounderby and James Harthouse. Dickens also believed in the
Thomas Onwhyn an edition from Grattan of Nicholas Nickleby (1839) which Dickens referred to in a letter of 13 July 1838 commenting on ‘"the singular Vileness of the Illustrations"’ (Letters of Charles Dickens, 1.414). Onwhyn married Marian in 1866 and they had sons Thomas and Herbert. Thomas Onwhyn Thomas Onwhyn (c.1811 - 21 January 1886) was an English artist, illustrator, engraver, satirist, and cartoonist. He also published an illustrated pirate edition of "The Pickwick Papers" in 1837 under the pen-name of "Samuel Weller", after Dicken's character in the book. He may have also used other pseudonyms including "Peter Paul Palette". He also