page_title: The Old Curiosity Shop
section_title: Adaptations
hierarchical_section_title: The Old Curiosity Shop / Adaptations
caption_attribution_description: Dickens and Little Nell (1890), a statue by Francis Edwin Elwell in Clark Park
context_page_description: The Old Curiosity Shop is one of two novels which Charles Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final instalment arrived in 1841. The Old Curiosity Shop was printed in book form in 1841.
  The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London.
  Queen Victoria read the novel in 1841 and found it "very interesting and cleverly written".
context_section_description: There were several silent film adaptations of the novel including two directed by Thomas Bentley:
  The Old Curiosity Shop (1914)
  The Old Curiosity Shop (1921)
  Nelly, an opera based on the novel, by Italian composer Lamberto Landi, was composed in 1916; it premiered in Lucca in 1947.
  The first talkie version was a 1934 British film starring Hay Petrie as Quilp.
  The novel was serialised for television by the BBC in 1962.
  A British musical version of The Old Curiosity Shop (titled Mr. Quilp in the United States) was released in 1975. The filmmakers were hoping to cash in on the recent success of Oliver!, which was also based on a Dickens classic, but the film was notably unsuccessful.
  In 1979, a nine-part miniseries was created by the BBC and later released on DVD. There was no Frederick character and the story ends with the grandfather mourning at Nell's grave.
  In 1984, an animated version was produced by Burbank Films in Australia.
  A BBC Radio 4 adaptation was broadcast in 1998. The production starred Tom Courtenay as Quilp, Denis Quilley, Michael Maloney and Teresa Gallagher.
  A second adaptation for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 2002-03, was narrated by Alex Jennings, with Emily Chenery (Nell), Phil Daniels (Quilp), Daniel Bliss (Kit), Trevor Peacock (grandfather), Clive Swift, Anna Massey and Julia McKenzie.
  In 1995, Tom Courtenay and Peter Ustinov starred in a Disney made-for-television film adaptation as Quilp and the grandfather, with Sally Walsh as Nell.
  A television film adaptation was produced by ITV, broadcast in the UK on 26 December 2007, and repeated on 14 December 2008.
  Little Nell is featured in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sculptural group Dickens and Little Nell (1890).
  Nell and her grandfather are featured prominently in the BBC's 2015 Christmas drama Dickensian, which  brings together many of Dickens' iconic characters in one story.
caption: Dickens and Little Nell, an 1890 statue by Francis Edwin Elwell exhibited in Philadelphia
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