Character in the novel Robinson Crusoe. In the picture Friday is grovelling to Crusoe.
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Henry Earlforward's bookshop
Bookshop in Arnold Bennett's 1923 novel "Riceyman Steps" set in Clerkenwell.
Nancy in Oliver Twist
Character created by Charles Dickens in his novel Oliver Twist, first published 1838.
David Copperfield
One of Charles Dickens characters from David Copperfield (1850).
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Active in 1956. Son of Anna and Samuel. William Henry Morris was born on 24 December 1895 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, the elder son of Samuel Morris (1872-1950) and Anna Morris née Jacob-Furmansky (1...
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