Little Nell is a character in which Dickens novel?
Dickens and Little Nell (Elwell) Dickens and Little Nell (Elwell) Dickens and Little Nell is a bronze sculpture by Francis Edwin Elwell that stands in Clark Park in the Spruce Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia. The sculpture depicts the 19th-century British author Charles Dickens and Nell Trent, a character from his 1840-41 novel "The Old Curiosity Shop". The grouping was one of the most celebrated American sculptural works of the late 19th century. It is one of just two known statues of Dickens, who said he wanted no such representations. The sculpture was commissioned in 1890 by "Washington Post" founder Stilson Hutchins, who wanted it placed
Dickens and Little Nell (Elwell) pedestal included three steps and a die of 4'8" by 3'4" by 4'2". By 1908, the association was receiving, and rebuffing, requests to move it to a more prominent place in the city. In 1911, the sculpture was mentioned in the "Encyclopædia Britannica" as one of the city's notable artworks. The sculpture was vandalized in November 1989, but restored. Dickens and Little Nell (Elwell) Dickens and Little Nell is a bronze sculpture by Francis Edwin Elwell that stands in Clark Park in the Spruce Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia. The sculpture depicts the 19th-century British author Charles Dickens and Nell Trent,