Mr Bounderby from 'Hard Times'

Category

Library Item

Item no

24885

Title

Mr Bounderby from 'Hard Times' (caption)

Description

The caption page for the illustration for Mr Bounderby is decorated with the drawing of a bee.

Artist / maker

Fraser, Claud Lovat

Date

1924

Size

8.5 x 9.0 cm

Type

Publisher's print

Location

Art and Design Library

Hard Times is Dickens' tenth novel and his shortest, but one of his least popular with Victorian readers. The story is set in the provincial factory town of Coketown.
Josiah Bounderby is an unpleasant banker, mill owner, and a self-professed self-made man. However, his claims of being abandoned as a child are proved false when the mother he discarded is found.

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