# Household Words, No. 15, July 6, 1850

Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 [Editor]

Genre: English literature -- Periodicals

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78179

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Household+Words%2C+No.+15%2C+July+6%2C+1850+Dickens&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Perhaps there is no Old Lady who has attained to such great distinction in the world, as this highly respectable female. Even the Old Lady who lived on a hill, and who, if she’s not gone, lives there still; or that other Old Lady who lived in a shoe, and had so many children she didn’t know what to do—are unknown to fame, compared with the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. In all parts of the civilised earth the imaginations of men, women, and children figure this tremendous Old Lady of Threadneedle Street in some rich shape or other. Throughout the length and breadth of England, old ladies dote upon her; young ladies smile upon her; old gentlemen make much of her, young gentlemen woo her;...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-15-july-6-1850-78179/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-15-july-6-1850-78179/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-15-july-6-1850-78179/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-15-july-6-1850-78179/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-15-july-6-1850-78179/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-15-july-6-1850-78179/chapters/6/index.md)