A little dry, brown, corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made of walnut-shells, and a large mouth like a cat’s without the whiskers.

Background.

‘A little dry, brown, corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made of walnut-shells, and a large mouth like a cat’s without the whiskers.‘ is a quotation from Great Expectations (Chapter 11).

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens‘s thirteenth novel first published between 1860 and 1861.

Context.

Description of Miss Sarah Pocket.

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