The ruin of petty owner in the context of developing capitalism—is one of the sides of contemporary life constantly depicted by Dickens. Prevailing of powerful official City over poor shops as “Wooden Midshipman”—is the theme not only of “Dombey & son”. The fate of an old antiquarian & his granddaughter Nelly in “Old Curiosity Shop” & countless petty shopkeepers & craftsmen acting in Dickens’s novels reflects typical situation for post reform England , the largest empire of the capitalistic world of the XIX century.
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