> Neat analysis - not sure why Little Dorrit is > poncey? Blackwood, June 1855 "Despite their descents into the lowest class, and their occasional flights into the less familiar ground of fashion, it is the air and breadth of middle-class respectability which fills the books of Mr. Dickens." Need a stewards on this;I was reading Lark Rise to Candleford this morning, which is a semi-autobiographical novel about the 1880/90s childhood & youthhood (?) of a poor, working class girl who says: "Laura took out the [library] ticket and, within a year, she had read and laughed and cried over the works of Charles Dickens, ... Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions; there were always books to borrow." So, does Mamoraman own his copy, or did he borrow it from the library?