- The series tells the story of Amy Dorrit, who spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father, who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her boss's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
- Little Dorrit was born in the Marshalsea prison in London, where debtors were confined years ago. Her father had numerous creditors whose claims had to be satisfied before he could leave the prison's gloomy walls. Her mother died when the child was eight years old, and the girl lived in the Marshalsea with her brother and sister. She was devoted to her family and helped them in many ways. Through her efforts, a dancing master, temporarily imprisoned in the Marshalsea, instructed her sister, Fanny, in the art of dancing. A seamstress taught Little Dorrit how to sew, and the girl, in her new occupation, earned money to buy luxuries for her helpless family. Little Dorrit frequently did sewing for Mrs. Clennam, an elderly widow, and at her home met her son, Arthur, who had just returned from a trip abroad. The young man was strongly attracted by the quiet, self-sacrificing girl, and a strong attachment sprung up between them, but Little Dorrit was loyal to her family, whom she felt was dependent upon her. Arthur Clennam bent every effort to secure the release of Dorrit from the Marshalsea, and succeeded in proving the latter's right to a fortune left by a distant relative. The Dorrits, now rich, ignored Arthur, to whom they owed everything, that is, all except Little Dorrit, but her family forced her to go with them to Italy, and become a society personage like themselves. Wealth did not bring happiness to the Dorrits. Little Dorrit was as unaffected as ever, but her family was pursebound and arrogant. The father was stricken at a banquet and died soon after, believing that he was once more a prisoner in the Marshalsea. Little Dorrit, how free, received word that Arthur Clennam had lost his fortune and was a prisoner himself in the Marshalsea. She went to him and comforted him in his hour of trial. Fortune smiled upon them, and Arthur soon was able to pay his debts and leave the Marshalsea forever, with his bride, Little Dorrit, the child of the Marshalsea.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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