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Dickens and Little Nell

Philadelphia, United States of America

Dickens and Little Nell

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 groupi

ng was one of the most celebrated American sculptural works of the late 19th century. It is one of just three known statues of Dickens, who said he wanted no such representations.

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