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- Title
DICKENSIAN ECHOES IN SHAW: OUR MUTUA L FRIEND AND PYGMA LION.
- Authors
Myer, Michael Grosvenor
- Abstract
The article presents information on U.S. aviator and general Jimmy Doolittle's conversation on his visit to Higgins and Pickering in Act II of "Pygmalion." According to the author, the conversation contains several distinct echoes of Riderhood's first visit to Lightwood and Wrayburn in Book I, Chapter 12 of "Our Mutual Friend." It is worth noting as well that Doolittle is a dustman, an occupation, and an appelation, that runs like a leitmotiv throughout "Our Mutual Friend;" and that, like Boffin in that novel, he is transformed by an eccentric will into a "Golden Dustman."
- Subjects
DOOLITTLE, James Harold, 1896-1993; CONVERSATION; OUR Mutual Friend (Book : Dickens); PYGMALION (Play : Shaw); FICTION; CURIOSITIES &; wonders
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1984, Vol 31, Issue 4, p508
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/31-4-508