Editing Great Expectations (section)

===Crime fiction===
[[File:"Molly, let them see both your wrists. Show them. Come!".jpeg|thumb|Jaggers asking Molly to show her scarred wrists, by John McLenan]]
''Great Expectations'' incorporates elements of the new genre of [[crime fiction]], which Dickens had already used in ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' (1837), and which was being developed by his friends [[Wilkie Collins]] and [[William Harrison Ainsworth]]. With its scenes of convicts, [[prison ship]]s, and episodes of bloody violence, Dickens creates characters worthy of the [[Newgate novel|Newgate school of fiction]].<ref>{{citation|author=Keith Hollingsworth|title=The Newgate Novel, 1830–1847, Bulwer, Ainsworth, Dickens & Thackeray|location=Detroit|publisher=Wayne State University Press|year=1963}}</ref>