Mrs. Jellyby and Telescopic Philanthropy

From Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Mrs. Jellyby devotes herself to African missions while her own children fall down stairs and starve—Dickens's satire of misdirected charity.
Chapter 4 (Telescopic Philanthropy)

Mrs. Jellyby's eyes have 'a curious habit of seeming to look a long way off. As if... they could see nothing nearer than Africa!' Her squalid home contrasts with her grand schemes for Borrioboola-Gha.

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