1885 HUCK FINN ILLUSTRATION


When Huck first gets to the Phelpses he describes a "nigger woman . . . tearing out of the kitchen" to silence the barking of the family's dogs; this is probably "Lize," who Aunt Sally mentions by name in Chapter 33, and who appears in Chapter 37 in the scene Kemble illustrates here. A few lines after this, another female slave, "a young yaller wench," makes a brief appearance in the story. Up to this point, however, Jim's imprisonment in the windowless shed has not been illustrated.
Chapter 37, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
The Barrett Collection, UVA   PS1305 .A1 1885b