- Fig. 1. Postcard of Mrs. Jarley from Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop, published by Stewart & Woolf, ca. 1909. Performing the role for over thirty years, Alcott usually wore a large black dress and a poke bonnet, and she carried an umbrella and a basket as she pointed out the different wax figures. Photograph © 2022 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Mrs. Jarley, Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop
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