Episode 1
Episode 1 Little Dorrit
Amy Dorrit lives in the Marshalsea Prison for Debt with her father, William Dorrit, who has been an inmate there for countless years. Amy is employed as a seamstress by the stern Mrs Clennam. Events are set in motion in the Clennam household when Mrs Clennam's son, Arthur, returns unexpectedly from China after an absence of fifteen years, bringing the news that his father, has died.
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Little Dorrit
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, his curiosity is piqued by the presence in his mother's house of a young seamstress, Amy Dorrit. Mrs Clennam isn't usually given to charity, so why has she made an exception in taking on Amy? Arthur's quest to discover the truth takes him to the Marshalsea Prison for Debt. Here he meets and befriends Amy's father, William Dorrit.
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