It’s a fleeting reference to settler colonialism in a novel that explores the difficulties of traversing boundaries – especially once they’ve been constructed in our minds. ‘Don’t be too proud to come and see us, when you have made your fortune’, she urges Tip, but he never makes it past Liverpool, returning to the Marshalsea before the month is up. We’re told that Amy, the ‘brave little creature’ at the heart of the novel, ‘pinche and scrape enough together to ship him for Canada’.
Tip is a gambler, perennially in debt and unable to settle to anything he’s always drawn back to the Marshalsea Prison, where the Dorrits have lived with their father since early childhood. In Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit (1855-7), Amy Dorrit despairs for her brother, Tip.
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