# Jacob — The Old Curiosity Shop character guide

> Jacob in The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** little Jacob

**First appearance:** 0013-xi

## Who they are

Kit's younger brother, a playful child living with their mother.

## In the story

### [Kit's Vigil and Nell's Farewell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_old_curiosity_shop_se/chapters/x)

Kit's younger brother, sitting bolt upright in a clothes-basket, wide awake and refusing to sleep.

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_old_curiosity_shop_se/chapters/xv)

One of the sturdy children in the cottage family who fetches milk for the travelers.

### [XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_old_curiosity_shop_se/chapters/xxi)

Little Jacob is frightened into silence by Quilp's threats.

### [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_old_curiosity_shop_se/chapters/xxii)

Little Jacob is astonished by the contents of Kit's box and joins in the laughter during the family's supper.

### [Chapter XXXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_old_curiosity_shop_se/chapters/xxxix)

Little Jacob accompanies the party and enjoys the play and oysters.

### [XLI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_old_curiosity_shop_se/chapters/xli)

Little Jacob is at the chapel with his mother, alternately sleeping and waking, and is terrified by the preacher's gaze.

### [LXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_old_curiosity_shop_se/chapters/lxi)

Kit's little brother, who visits with their mother and cries piteously at seeing Kit behind bars.

### [LXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_old_curiosity_shop_se/chapters/lxviii)

Little Jacob is present at the reunion, sitting alone on the stairs crying, and later eating plum-cake and eyeing the figs and oranges.

### [LXXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_old_curiosity_shop_se/chapters/lxxii)

The little boy who was Nell's friend brings dried flowers and stays with the old man, helping to comfort him.

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