Jellyby

But Mrs. Jellyby barely noticed and wasn't disturbed.

Would Ike Have Gone to Libya? Peggy Noonan 2011

Mrs. Jellyby "devoted herself to an extensive variety of public subjects, at various times, and is at present until something else attracts her devoted to the subject of Africa," the narrator tells us.

Would Ike Have Gone to Libya? Peggy Noonan 2011

Yet can Dickens's story mean much to a child who is still at least a decade away from meeting Pip, Mrs. Jellyby or David Copperfield?

Get Yourself Ready To Be Blown Away Meghan Cox Gurdon 2012

Readers may recall Mrs. Jellyby, the philanthropist that Charles Dickens portrayed in his novel Bleak House —a woman who squandered time and effort on fantastic charitable schemes supposedly taking place halfway across the globe while the world of her own family fell apart.

Refining the Art of Giving Andrew Rosenbaum 2011

Is there something of Mrs. Jellyby in our foreign policy?

Would Ike Have Gone to Libya? Peggy Noonan 2011

Anticommunism may have been the humanitarianism of Eisenhower's time, but Ike was no Mrs. Jellyby.

Ike Had Some Foreign Policy Pluses and a Minus or Two 2011

Of Mrs. Jellyby from "Bleak House," that little tornado of conceit and self-righteousness who set herself to rehabilitating the world as she neglected her own family.

Would Ike Have Gone to Libya? Peggy Noonan 2011

Jarndyce v Jarndyce with some Jellyby, Dedlock, Guppy, Turveydrop, Tulkinghorn and the Smallweeds thrown in is proving irresistible and I don't want to declare too soon but perhaps this is it?

A Dickens of a read. 2007

Jarndyce v Jarndyce with some Jellyby, Dedlock, Guppy, Turveydrop, Tulkinghorn and the Smallweeds thrown in is proving irresistible and I don't want to declare too soon but perhaps this is it?

A Dickens of a read. 2007

Jarndyce v Jarndyce with some Jellyby, Dedlock, Guppy, Turveydrop, Tulkinghorn and the Smallweeds thrown in is proving irresistible and I don't want to declare too soon but perhaps this is it?

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