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Answer: Oliver Twist

'Oliver Twist' was written by Charles Dickens to draw attention to the terrible poverty and exploitation of children in the east end of London. This line was said in an orphanage where the children were given barely enough food to live on, and were expected to be grateful for it.

Answer: Abel Magwitch

This story was first serialised in a monthly magazine called 'All the Year Round'. It was written in the middle of the 19th century, during the time of the Industrial Revolution in England. Although this led to increased prosperity for some, many people were very poor and Dickens felt the injustice of this.

Answer: Jacob Marley

Mr. Scrooge, an old miser, goes through a terrifying experience when he is visited by four different ghosts. This makes such an impression on him that he completely changes his attitude to life.

Answer: The French Revolution

Dickens was always concerned with social injustice, but in this novel he does not only criticise the better off, but shows the horror of the brutalised mob in Paris.

Answer: David Copperfield

Miss Trotwood is a very eccentric lady who rejects David as a baby because he is male, and she believes that all men are wasters. However when he lands on her doorstep after running away from a bottle factory she takes him in and cares for him. Charles Dickens worked in a bottle factory when he was a boy.

Answer: Nell Trent

Queen Victoria read this novel and pronounced it 'Very interesting and cleverly written'. This was noted this in her journal, on 5th March 1841. (www.queenvictoriasjournals.org/). There is a shop called the Old Curiosity Shop in Portsmouth, which is the town of Charles Dickens's birth.

Answer: Daniel Deronda

Daniel Deronda was written by British author Mary Anne Evans, whose pen name was George Eliot. Women often used men's names in the 19th century because there was much prejudice against women writers. The Bronte sisters also used male pen names. George Eliot also wrote such books as 'Silas Marner' and 'The Mill on the Floss'.

Answer: The Pickwick Papers

This was Dickens first novel. At the time he was still writing under the name Boz and his novels were published in monthly instalments. The character of Sam Weller, who first appeared in episode 10, caught the public imagination and from that time Pickwick Papers was a huge success. Sam Weller was Mr. Pickwick's valet and full of eccentric sayings and advice.

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The money in the estate has been completely spent on the cost of the litigation. Charles Dickens wrote this book to make fun of the British law system of the time. The lawyers claimed that it was a very exaggerated view.

Answer: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' was Dickens's fifteenth and last novel, as unfortunately he died in 1870 before it was finished. There has been much speculation among scholars regarding the possible ending. 'Jude the Obscure' was not written by Dickens but by Thomas Hardy, another great British novelist.