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Brass

Brass  

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1 a character in Vanbrugh's The Confederacy;2 Sampson and his sister Sally, characters in Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop.
Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens  

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(1812–70),English novelist, whose first tour of the U.S. (Jan.–May 1842) is described in his American Notes for General Circulation (1842), and furnished the background for portions of Martin ...
Codlin and Short

Codlin and Short  

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In Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, travel about the country with a Punch and Judy show.
Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son  

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Dealings with the Firm of A novel by Charles Dickens, published 1847–8. When the story opens Mr Dombey, the frigid head of the shipping house of Dombey and Son, has just ...
Garland

Garland  

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1 Mr and Mrs, characters in Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop;2 Anne, a character in Hardy's The Trumpet Major.
Kit Nubbles

Kit Nubbles  

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A character in Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop.
Little Eva

Little Eva  

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The saintly child Evangeline St Clair in H. B. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin whose deathbed scene rivals in sentiment the death of Little Nell in The Old Curosity Shop.
Little Nell

Little Nell  

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(Trent), the heroine of Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop.
Marchioness

Marchioness  

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A character in Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop.
Master Humphrey's Clock

Master Humphrey's Clock  

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A weekly founded by Dickens in 1840, originally intended as a miscellany which would contain a continuous narrative (The Old Curiosity Shop) linked by the reminiscences of the narrator, Master ...
Mrs Jarley

Mrs Jarley  

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In Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, the proprietor of a travelling waxworks show.
Mrs Jiniwin

Mrs Jiniwin  

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In Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, the mother of Mrs Quilp.
Nubbles, Mrs and Kit

Nubbles, Mrs and Kit  

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Characters in Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop.
Quilp, Daniel and Mrs

Quilp, Daniel and Mrs  

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Characters in Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop.
Swiveller, Dick

Swiveller, Dick  

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A character in Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop.
Trent, Fred

Trent, Fred  

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A character in Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop. His sister is ‘Little Nell’.
Wackles, Mrs and the Misses Melissa, Sophy, and Jane

Wackles, Mrs and the Misses Melissa, Sophy, and Jane  

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In Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, kept a ‘Ladies' Seminary’ at Chelsea.

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