He becomes a leader of the rioters during the Gordon Riots and during the fighting loses his slender legs, long his pride and joy. Dickens worked with prison governors to help women who were about to be released; he was passionate about rehabilitation, convinced that most female convicts were not inherently criminal but simply desperate, failed by a harsh society. When Nell and her grandfather leave London Swiveller is befriended by Quilp who helps him gain employment with the Brasses. Charity has a disposition "which was then observed to be of a sharp and acid quality, as though an extra lemon (figuratively speaking) had been squeezed into the nectar of her disposition, and had rather damaged its flavour.

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He is slighted by Mr Jingle at a ball, and Winkle almost fights a duel with him, because Jingle had borrowed Winkle's coat and Slammer's second delivers the challenge to the owner of the distinctive coat. As recently as 1939, an English publisher suppressed a scholarly book about the Dickens-Nelly relationship, perhaps fearing its findings to be actionable, “even though,” as Tomalin observes, “all those involved were dead.

Chuzzlewit, Jonas Son of Anthony Chuzzlewit, he attempts to kill his father to gain his inheritance. Nupkins, Mr Mr Nupkins is the Mayor and principal magistrate of Ipswitch, before whom Mr Pickwick is hauled on suspicion of intent to fight a duel with Peter Magnus, in The Pickwick Papers. Many criticise his heroines for being far too thinly sketched: they can be beautiful and good but seldom deep-thinking or intelligent. Duff A Bow Street Runner who, along with Blathers, investigates the attempted robbery of the Maylie home in Oliver Twist.

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Granger, Edith Paul Dombey's second wife is the widow of Colonel Granger and the daughter of Mrs Skewton.Dedlock is an unthinking conservative who regards the Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit in which his wife is entangled as a mark of distinction worthy of a man of his family lineage.

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Becomes a pupil of Pecksniff who, because of pressure from the grandfather, throws young Martin out. It is worth remembering that Victorians lived in an intensely patriarchal society, despite the British Empire working under the reign of the most powerful woman of the century.

Flintwinch, Affery servant in the Clennam household and wife of Jeremiah Flintwinch in Little Dorrit. They could hardly have been more so, if I had been twenty years of age, distinguished at a grammar-school, and going to Cambridge.