Widely considered to be Dickens's greatest satire on poverty, Little Dorrit is the story of Amy 'Little' Dorrit's struggle to hold her poverty-stricken family together in the face of her father's imprisonment in the Marshalsea debtor's prison. Called the 'child of the Marshalsea,' Little Dorrit struggles to support her family as a seamstress while dreaming of a future free of the Marshalsea. Little Dorrit was originally published as a serial between 1855 and 1857 as a critique of the British deb