Nicholas Nickleby, Illustration showing the pupils at Dotheboys Hall school, one of them being fed from a spoon by Mrs Squeers, the wife of the headmaster. Image taken from The Works of Charles Dickens. National edition. Edited by B. W. Matz. With all the plates, illustrations, wrapper designs and prefaces of the earlier editions. The text based on the Charles Dickens edition..6, 7. Nicholas Nickleby. Originally published in 1906. Author Charles Dickens, Illustrated by Werster, T Williams.