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Please, sir, can I have a walk? Dickens biographer finds likely inspiration for Oliver Twist
Source: The Guardian · Published
<p>Exclusive: Theresa Musgrove unearths newspaper archives showing one Alice Shepherd was severely punished in 1836 for similarly innocent request</p><p>Could a consumptive young woman called Alice…
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