Real-life Charles Dickens characters traced
Historian finds many of literature's best-known names in the London streets of Dickens's teenage years
Bill Sikes and Scrooge are among the most well-known characters in English literature but rather than being figments of Charles Dickens's imagination, their names were derived from real people – and new research has pinpointed the writer's sources of inspiration.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 1 February, 2012
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