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The little one of the title is actually a young woman, Amy Dorrit, a seamstress and the daughter of William, whose debts have landed him in Marshalsea Prison (where Dickens père once languished).
Books on Reputation Tina Brown 2009
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The area also housed the Marshalsea Prison, background to Dicken's Little Dorrit.
John Atkinson Grimshaw - Blackman Street Hermes 2009
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Some of my readers may have an interest in being informed whether or no any portions of the Marshalsea Prison are yet standing.
Little Dorrit 2007
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There had been taken to the Marshalsea Prison, long before the day when the sun shone on Marseilles and on the opening of this narrative, a debtor with whom this narrative has some concern.
Little Dorrit 2007
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The condemned felon has as good a yard for air and exercise in Newgate, as the insolvent debtor in the Marshalsea Prison.
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George, in the borough of Southwark, on the left – hand side of the way going southward, the Marshalsea Prison.
Little Dorrit 2007
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The prisoners were taken to the Marshalsea Prison in
The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919
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When Gow and his crew eventually arrived in irons at the Marshalsea Prison, they found Williams already there awaiting trial.
The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919
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The pirates were supplied with money by the British Consul in Tunis; but Coyle, while in his cups, talked too freely, so that the true story of his doings got to the Consul's ears, who had him arrested and sent to London to be lodged in the Marshalsea Prison.
The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919
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The door of the Marshalsea Prison stood open like a great black mouth.
Historic Boyhoods Rupert Sargent Holland 1915
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