Little Dorrit is a short story by Charles Dickens.
Mrs Clennam fails to tell Little Dorrit of her inheritance or give it to her, though she hires her for seamstress work, and she fails to tell Arthur about his biological mother, though Arthur had sensed that his father had some past burden on his mind even as he died
 Little Dorrit, devoted to her father, supports them both through her sewing and is free to pass in and out of the prison

