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She is dismissed in favour of Rosa and aids lawyer Tulkinghorn in discovering Lady Dedlock's secret. But both parents had descended from servants, a downstairs lineage that the father in particular kept quiet about. Tiffey, Mr "old clerk with the wig" that had once visited Mr Spenlow at his house in Norwood and had "drunk brown East India sherry there, of a quality so precious as to make a man wink. Becomes a pupil of Pecksniff who, because of pressure from the grandfather, throws young Martin out.

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Eminent Dickens biographers who have read Tomalin’s The Invisible Woman—Peter Ackroyd in 1990 and Michael Slater in 2009—aren’t convinced that Nelly went to bed with the man who covered all her family’s expenses. Dickens was a superb publicist, always aware of what sold, but he also refused to pander to public opinion.

As well as his family, the women Dickens chose to surround himself with show an appreciation of a sharp, female presence. Scrooge, Ebenezer Miserly main character in A Christmas Carol, he is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley and three ghosts of Christmas. His moustache went up under his nose, and his nose came down over his moustache, in a very sinister and cruel manner. The Cratchit family consists of Bob's wife, eldest daughter Martha, daughter Belinda, son Peter, two younger children: boy and girl, and Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol. Nickleby, Mrs, mother of Nicholas and Kate Nickleby, is quite possibly the most obtuse character in the Dickens oeuvre.

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She and her husband, John Dickens, were also unusually progressive in believing it was their eldest child, a daughter, Fanny, whose education was more important than their son’s. Pardiggle, Felix is Mrs Pardiggle's fourth son who is forced to participate in all her causes in Bleak House.

On her aunt's death she is adopted by John Jarndyce and becomes companion to his wards, Ada Clare and Richard Carstone. Hominy, Mrs Conceited American literary lady Martin is forced to accompany on the first leg of the trip to Eden in Martin Chuzzlewit. For bad, also, in that this holiday conviviality was as far as Dickens usually could go emotionally.

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After jealous, feckless pursuit, from age 19 to 23, he was dismissed as socially unacceptable by her banker father. Melia, maidservant at Dr Blimber's school, who helped little Paul Dombey to dress, then rubbed his hands to warm them, gave him a kiss and told him "whenever he wanted anything of that sort - meaning in the dressing way - to ask for Melia". She has died before the story begins but lives again in the 'shadows' shown to Scrooge by the Ghost of Christmas Past. The doctor's younger daughter, Marion, runs away and secretly lives with Martha in The Battle of Life.Nipper, Susan Florence Dombey's maid who is discharged when she confronts Paul Dombey about his treatment of Florence.