Pyle on Dickens

“I do not mean to belittle Dickens but do you not think that the self-sacrifice of the hero in - Little Doret [sic] is it - is just a little cheap and tawdry? Do you not think that ‘Little Nell’ is just a trifle over-sentimental?”

Howard Pyle to Frank W. Hoyt, February 27, 1892