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He is found to be George Rouncewell, son of the Dedlocks' housekeeper, Mrs Rouncewell, who welcomes him back to Chesney Wold. After Drood's disappearance Jasper cast blame on Neville who has no alibi and flees to London with his sister in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Later he is cleared with the discovery that the robbery was committed by young Tom Gradgrind in Hard Times. His boyhood traumas molded him for bad, however, in that he could never entirely forgive his parents, especially his mother, who “was warm for my being sent back” to the blacking factory—a few extra shillings for the family exchequer—even after his father’s release. Mrs Pocket relies on her maids Flopson and Millers to care for her children, whom she usually manages to trip.

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Feeder, Mr The assistant to Dr Blimber in Dombey and Son, at the school in Brighton which the younger Paul Dombey attends. Riderhood later becomes a lock-keeper and tries to blackmail Bradley Headstone after Bradley tries to murder Eugene Wrayburn.Rather tall, of a lithe nimble figure, extremely pale, with large faded eyes, and a quantity of streaming hair.

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Raised in humble circumstances by his abusive sister and her kind-hearted husband Joe, Pip is exposed to the high-class, disdainful beauty Estella at Satis House. Her father was a Knight "who had invented for himself a conviction that his deceased father would have been made a Baronet but for somebody's determined opposition arising out of entirely personal motives. She inflicts her activities on her five small sons, who are clearly rebellious, and is always asking Mr Jarndyce for donations in Bleak House. Allen, Arabella is the sister of Benjamin Allen, and eventually Mr Winkle's wife, in The Pickwick Papers. Miss Havisham dies when her house burns down and leaves her fortune to Estella in Great Expectations.Bachelor, The, is friend to the parson in the village church where Nell and her grandfather end their journey. He wore a loose black silk handkerchief round his neck, and such a very large coarse shirt collar, that it looked like a small sail in Dombey and Son. At the end, she dies, disgraced in her own mind and convinced that her aristocratic husband can never forgive her moral failings, even though he has already done so. When after receiving a small inheritance his father was able to pay his debts and walk free, the family rarely spoke about what they’d been through—and never spoke about what Charles in particular had been through at the blacking factory. Bounderby, Josiah Coketown Banker, mill owner, and ' self-made man' proud that he raised himself in the streets after being abandoned as a child.

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Pleasant is an unlicensed pawnbroker, she later overcomes her dislike of Mr Venus's occupation and agrees to marry him in Our Mutual Friend. Manette, Dr Alexandre is the father of Lucie Manette in A Tale of Two Cities, and a former prisoner in the Bastille. Harriet lives with John and the two inherit James' fortune and donate it, anonymously, to Mr Dombey. She later is reunited with the Meagles and assists in the undoing of the Rigaud/Blandois blackmail attempt in Little Dorrit. Take Copperfield’s cast of characters: He pits the domestic deity Agnes against the silly sexpot Dora, neither one of them having any other appreciable qualities; the victimized Little Em’ly becomes a prostitute; the odd Rosa Dartle is twisted into psychopathology by her passion for the abusive J.

He murders Tigg, the murder is discovered, and on the way to prison poisons himself in Martin Chuzzlewit. Mr Crisparkle, Minor Canon, early riser, musical, classical, cheerful, kind, good-natured, social, contented, and boy-like. She began as a housemaid and, after being widowed and left a single mother, worked her way up to the role of housekeeper. Nor will a series of colorless female leads, who are never at the center of his books the way they would be in books by Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James, or Thomas Hardy, incite serious people to expel him from his corner in Westminster Abbey. Littimer Manservant to Steerforth, involved in the concealment of the elopement of Steerforth and Emily.