We were greatly overcome at parting; and if ever, in my life, I have had a void made in my heart, I had one made that day.

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Fagin from Oliver Twist, by Joseph Clayton Clarke art

Fagin is a self-confessed miser who, despite the wealth he has acquired, does very little to improve the squalid lives of the children he guards, or his own.

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The Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist, by Joseph Clayton Clarke charlesdickens

Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, is a pickpocket, so called for his skill and cunning in that occupation

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Bill Sikes from Oliver Twist, by Joseph Clayton Clarke, 1889 art charlesdickens

Sikes is a malicious criminal in Fagin's gang, and a vicious robber and murderer. Throughout much of the novel Sikes is shadowed by his “bull-terrier” dog Bull's-eye.

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Mr Pickwick from The Pickwick Papers, by Joseph Clayton Clarke charlesdickens

Pickwick is a retired successful businessman and is the Founder and Chairman of the Pickwick Club

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Uriah Heep from David Copperfield, by Joseph Clayton Clarke, 1889 art

Heep is one of the main antagonists of the novel. His character is notable for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, making frequent references to his own "'umbleness".

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Mr Jingle from The Pickwick Papers, by Joseph Clayton Clarke, 1889 CharlesDickens

From "Character Sketches from Charles Dickens, Pourtrayed by Kyd", or "The Characters of Charles Dickens Pourtrayed in a Series of Original Water Colour Sketches by Kyd."

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Sleary’s Circus from Charles Dickens’ Hard Times.

Taking some artistic license with the Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clark) illustration of Mr Sleary.

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Daniel Peggotty from David Copperfield, by Joseph Clayton Clarke, 1889

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THE TWELVE DAYS OF DICKENS’S CHRISTMAS. Day 4. Pip’s Xmas dinner was “the scaly tips of the drumsticks of the fowls” and “those obscure corners of pork of which the pig, when living, had had the least reason to be vain”.

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Christmas art of Daniel Dickens from 2018

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Illustration by Arthur Rackham for Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"

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from the Special Collections & Archives team! We hope you're all celebrating in style just like Mr Fezziwig's Ball from Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' (6th edition, 1844, 19th C. Coll. 823.83 DIC)

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