Possible Clues:

• Dickens heroine
• Dickens orphan
• Character in The Old Curiosity Shop
• Tiny foolish person stopped short, a Dickensian
• Small lakes around NE Trent
• Shed light on state in which one finds boy and girl in Dickens
• Play by Simon Gray, based on a character in 'The Old Curiosity Shop'
• Heroine getting not much audible warning of danger
• Modest passing-bell heard for Wilde's laughable death?
• Dickens heroine (The Old Curiosity Shop)