Fictional aunt of the equally fictitious Phileas Fogg who is the central character in the novel 'Around the World in Eighty Days' by Jules Verne.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Fictional aunt of the equally fictitious Phileas Fogg who is the central character in the novel 'Around the World in Eighty Days' by Jules Verne.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Gertrude Fogg
One of Charles Dickens characters from A Christmas Carol (1843).
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