3-047-177 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Oliver Twist Asks For More', c1900. The main character in Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist". 'The master, in his cook's uniform, stationed himself at the copper,...the gruel was served out...The gruel disappeared...Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger and reckless with misery. He rose from the table, and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said, somewhat alarmed at his own temerity: "Please, sir, I want some more". From "Stories of Children from Dickens", told by his granddaughter Mary Angela Dickens and others, with an introduction by Percy Fitzgerald, illustrated by Harold Copping, [Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, London, c1900]