《卫报》- 提到狄更斯自己在12岁时的经历，父母因为家中债务被关入狱 Marshalsea（该类监狱已经废除）。
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/15/little-dorritt-byatt
"...Victorian novels are about money and as a child I was terrified that my parents might not have enough, that we might suddenly all find ourselves imprisoned in the Marshalsea. I was a logical child, and didn't see how debtors could ever find the money to pay off their debts, if they were locked in and couldn't work..."
"The terror was Dickens's own. In 1823, when he was 12, his father was taken into the Marshalsea, with his family, and the bright, ambitious boy was sent to earn a pittance in a boot-blacking factory."
PBS - 2009年3月至4月在PBS播放
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/littledorrit/index.html
"Despite the dark shadow of debtor's prison, Amy lovingly cares for her father William Dorrit (Tom Courtenay), the longest serving inmate. A possibly redemptive light unexpectedly shines in the form of Arthur Clennam (Matthew Macfadyen), who has been left with the intriguing threads of a mystery after his father's death — threads that will intertwine his family and fate with the Dorrits."
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