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Great Expectations

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Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. [1]

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A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843; the first edition was illustrated by John Leech.

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A House to Let

"A House to Let" is a short story by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter.

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A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.

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A. W. Sandberg

Anders Wilhelm Sandberg (1887 –1938) was a Danish film director and screenwriter.

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Abel Magwitch

Abel Magwitch is a fictional character from Charles Dickens's 1861 novel, Great Expectations.

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Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness, (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor.

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Alfonso Cuarón

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic.

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All the Year Round

All the Year Round was a Victorian periodical, being a British weekly literary magazine founded and owned by Charles Dickens, published between 1859 and 1895 throughout the United Kingdom.

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Alternate history

Alternate history or alternative history (Commonwealth English), sometimes abbreviated as AH, is a genre of fiction consisting of stories in which one or more historical events occur differently.

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Angus Calder

Angus Lindsay Ritchie Calder (5 February 1942 – 5 June 2008) was a Scottish academic, writer, historian, educator and literary editor with a background in English literature, politics and cultural studies.

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Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937), better known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor, widely considered to be one of the world's greatest living actors.

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Anthony Wager

Anthony A. "Tony" Wager (24 June 1932 – 23 December 1990) was an English actor and television writer.

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Autobiography

An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a self-written account of the life of oneself.

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Bachelor

A bachelor is a man who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.

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Barnard's Inn

Barnard's Inn is the current home of Gresham College in Holborn, London.

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Barry Letts

Barry Leopold Letts (26 March 1925 – 9 October 2009) was an English actor, television director, writer and producer.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bernard Miles

Bernard James Miles, Baron Miles, CBE (27 September 190714 June 1991) was an English character actor, writer and director.

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BFI Top 100 British films

In 1999 the British Film Institute surveyed 1,000 people from the world of British film and television to produce the BFI 100 list of the greatest British films of the 20th century.

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Bildungsroman

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman ("bildung", meaning "education", and "roman", meaning "novel"; English: "novel of formation, education, culture"; "coming-of-age story") is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change is extremely important.

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Bill Kerr

William Henry Kerr (10 June 1922 – 28 August 2014), credited as Bill Kerr, was a South African-born entertainer, who had a successful career in Britain and Australia as an actor, comedian and vaudevillian.

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Blacksmith

A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. whitesmith).

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Blackwall, London

Blackwall is a district in London, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and also forms part of the Port of London.

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Blackwood's Magazine

Blackwood's Magazine was a British magazine and miscellany printed between 1817 and 1980.

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Bleak House

Bleak House is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853.

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Bougainville Island

Bougainville Island is the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville of Papua New Guinea.

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Bradbury and Evans

Bradbury and Evans (est.1830) was an English printing and publishing business founded by William Bradbury (1799England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1910.-1869) and Frederick Mullett Evans (1804General Register Office: Birth Certificates from the Presbyterian, Independent and Baptist Registry and from the Wesleyan Methodist Metropolitan Registry.-1870) in London.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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British Protectorate

British Protectorates were territories in which the British Crown exercised sovereign jurisdiction.

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Cairo

Cairo (القاهرة) is the capital of Egypt.

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Caricature

A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or through other artistic drawings.

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Catherine Dickens

Catherine Thomson "Kate" Dickens (née Hogarth; 19 May 1815 – 22 November 1879) was the wife of English novelist Charles Dickens, and the mother of his ten children.

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Chapman & Hall

Chapman & Hall was a British publishing house in London, founded in the first half of the 19th century by Edward Chapman and William Hall.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Charles Dickens Jr.

Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (6 January 1837 – 20 July 1896) was the first child of the English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine.

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Charles Lever

Charles James Lever (31 August 1806 – 1 June 1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation.

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Charles Mathews

Charles Mathews (28 June 1776, London – 28 June 1835, Devonport) was an English theatre manager and comic actor, well known during his time for his gift of impersonation and skill at table entertainment.

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Charlotte Rampling

Tessa Charlotte Rampling, (born 5 February 1946) is an English actress, model and singer, known for her work in European arthouse films in English, French, and Italian.

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Chatham, Kent

Chatham is one of the Medway towns located within the Medway unitary authority, in North Kent, in South East England.

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Cheek by Jowl

Cheek by Jowl is an international theatre company founded in the United Kingdom by director Declan Donnellan and designer Nick Ormerod in 1981.

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Chris Ellison (actor)

Christopher Michael Ellison (born 16 December 1946 in St Pancras, London) is an English actor.

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Colin Jeavons

Colin Abel Jeavons (born 20 October 1929) is a retired English television actor.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the policy of a polity seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of developing or exploiting them to the benefit of the colonizing country and of helping the colonies modernize in terms defined by the colonizers, especially in economics, religion and health.

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Comedy

In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.

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Commonwealth Foundation prizes

Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011.

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Compeyson

Compeyson is the main antagonist of Charles Dickens' novel, Great Expectations, whose criminal activities harmed two people, who in turn shaped much of protagonist Pip's life.

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Country Bankers Act 1826

The Country Bankers Act 1826 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom enacted during the reign of George IV.

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Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.

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Culture and Imperialism

Culture and Imperialism is a 1993 collection of essays by Edward Said, in which the author attempts to trace the connection between imperialism and culture in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

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Cumberland

Cumberland is a historic county of North West England that had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974.

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Cyril Ornadel

Cyril Ornadel (2 December 192422 June 2011) was a British conductor, songwriter and composer, chiefly in musical theatre.

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy.

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David Copperfield

David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens.

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David Copperfield (character)

David Copperfield, Jr. is the protagonist after which the 1850 Charles Dickens novel, David Copperfield, was named.

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David Lean

Sir David Lean, CBE (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, responsible for large-scale epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Passage to India (1984).

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David Trotter

David Trotter (born 4 March 1986) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Kangaroos Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Declan Donnellan

Declan Michael Martin Donnellan (born 4 August 1953) is an English film/stage director and author.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Derek Benfield

Derek Benfield (11 March 1926 – 10 March 2009) was a British playwright and actor.

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Dilys Award

The Dilys Award was presented every year from 1992 to 2014 by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.

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Dinsdale Landen

Dinsdale James Landen (4 September 1932 – 29 December 2003) was a British actor whom The Independent named as an "outstanding actor with the qualities of a true farceur," who became perhaps best known for his television appearances.

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Divine providence

In theology, divine providence, or just providence, is God's intervention in the universe.

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Douglas Booth

Douglas John Booth (born 9 July 1992) is an English actor.

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Dover

Dover is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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Dundee Repertory Theatre

Dundee Repertory Theatre or Dundee Rep is a theatre and arts company in the city of Dundee, Scotland.

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Edmund Yates

Edmund Hodgson Yates (3 July 1831 – 20 May 1894) was a British journalist, novelist and dramatist.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician.

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Edward Said

Edward Wadie Said (إدوارد وديع سعيد,; 1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.

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Egypt

Egypt (مِصر, مَصر, Khēmi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.

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Ellen Ternan

Ellen Lawless Ternan (3 March 1839 – 25 April 1914), also known as Nelly Ternan or Nelly Robinson, was an English actress who is mainly known as the mistress of Charles Dickens.

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Entrapment

In criminal law, entrapment is a practice whereby a law enforcement agent induces a person to commit a criminal offence that the person would have otherwise been unlikely or unwilling to commit.

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Estella (Great Expectations)

Estella Havisham (best known in literature simply as Estella) is a significant character in the Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations.

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Estelle Winwood

Estelle Winwood (born Estelle Ruth Goodwin, 24 January 1883 – 20 June 1984) was an English stage and film actress who moved to the United States in mid-career and became celebrated for her wit and longevity.

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Ethan Hawke

Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, writer, and director.

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Fantasy literature

Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world.

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Fashionable novel

Fashionable novels, also called silver-fork novels, were a 19th-century genre of English literature that depicted the lives of the upper class and the aristocracy.

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Finlay Currie

William Finlay Jefferson Currie (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968) was a Scottish actor of stage, screen, and television.

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Forge

A forge is a type of hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace (smithy) where such a hearth is located.

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Francesca Annis

Francesca Annis (born 14 May 1945) is an English actress.

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Fred Kaplan (biographer)

Fred Kaplan (born 1937) is distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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Free trade

Free trade is a free market policy followed by some international markets in which countries' governments do not restrict imports from, or exports to, other countries.

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Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.;, sometimes anglicised Frederick Engels; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, social scientist, journalist and businessman.

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Gads Hill Place

Gads Hill Place in Higham, Kent, sometimes spelt Gadshill Place and Gad's Hill Place, was the country home of Charles Dickens, the most successful British author of the Victorian era.

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Gallows

A gallows (or scaffold) is a frame, typically wooden, used for execution by hanging.

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Gary Bond

Gary James Bond (7 February 1940 – 12 October 1995) was an English film and television actor.

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Gate Theatre

Founded in 1928, the Gate Theatre is considered by many to be Dublin's home for great European and American theatre, as well as classics from the modern and Irish repertoire.

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Genre

Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist.

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George Gissing

George Robert Gissing (22 November 1857 – 28 December 1903) was an English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903.

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George III of the United Kingdom

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

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Gerry Sundquist

Gerry Sundquist (6 October 1955 – 1 August 1993) was an English actor.

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Gillian Anderson

Gillian Leigh Anderson, (born August 9, 1968) is an American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer.

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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance.

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Gout

Gout is a form of inflammatory arthritis characterized by recurrent attacks of a red, tender, hot, and swollen joint.

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Great Expectations (1917 film)

Great Expectations is a lost 1917 silent drama film directed by Robert G. Vignola and Paul West, based on the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

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Great Expectations (1934 film)

Great Expectations is a 1934 adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name.

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Great Expectations (1946 film)

Great Expectations is a 1946 British film directed by David Lean, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and starring John Mills, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness and Valerie Hobson.

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Great Expectations (1974 film)

Great Expectations is a 1974 film made for television based on the Charles Dickens novel of the same name.

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Great Expectations (1981 miniseries)

Great Expectations is a 1981 BBC TV miniseries, based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

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Great Expectations (1991 miniseries)

Great Expectations is a British television serial based on Charles Dickens' novel of the same title.

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Great Expectations (1998 film)

Great Expectations is a 1998 contemporary film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name, co-written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Robert De Niro, Anne Bancroft and Chris Cooper.

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Great Expectations (1999 film)

Great Expectations is a 1999 television film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name and was aired on Masterpiece Theatre.

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Great Expectations (2011 miniseries)

Great Expectations is a three-part BBC television drama adaptation by Sarah Phelps of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, starring Ray Winstone as Magwitch, Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham, Douglas Booth as Pip, Vanessa Kirby as Estella and David Suchet as Jaggers.

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Great Expectations (2012 film)

Great Expectations is a 2012 British film adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel of the same name.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.

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Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972) is an American actress, singer, and food writer.

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Hal Shaper

Hal Shaper (Born Harold David Shaper, 18 July 1931 - 8 January 2004) was a South African songwriter.

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Handmaiden

A handmaiden, handmaid or maidservant is a personal maid or female servant.

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Harper's Weekly

Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City.

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Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress best known for her roles in low-budget arthouse and independent films to large-scale Hollywood productions.

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Higham, Kent

Higham is a large village, and electoral ward bordering the Hoo Peninsula, in Kent, between Gravesend and Rochester.

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.

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Household Words

Household Words was an English weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens in the 1850s.

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Hugh Leonard

Hugh Leonard (9 November 1926 – 12 February 2009) was an Irish dramatist, television writer and essayist.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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Ioan Gruffudd

Ioan Gruffudd (born 6 October 1973) is a Welsh actor.

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Irony

Irony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.

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Jack Maggs

Jack Maggs (1997) is a novel by Australian novelist Peter Carey.

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Jack Pickford

Jack Pickford (born John Charles Smith; August 18, 1896 – January 3, 1933) was a Canadian-born American actor, film director and producer.

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Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida (born Jackie Élie Derrida;. See also. July 15, 1930 – October 9, 2004) was a French Algerian-born philosopher best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which he discussed in numerous texts, and developed in the context of phenomenology.

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James Mason

James Neville Mason (15 May 1909 – 27 July 1984) was an English actor.

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Jane Asher

Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946) is an English actress, author, and entrepreneur, who achieved early fame as a child actress, and has worked extensively in film and TV throughout her career.

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Jane Wyatt

Jane Waddington Wyatt (August 12, 1910 – October 20, 2006) was an American actress.

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Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is a British novelist.

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Jean Simmons

Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010) was an English actress and singer.

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Jeremy Irvine

Jeremy William Fredric Smith better known as Jeremy Irvine, is an English actor who made his film debut in the epic war film War Horse (2011).

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Joan Hickson

Joan Bogle Hickson, OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television.

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John Bunyan

John Bunyan (baptised November 30, 1628August 31, 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress.

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John Forster (biographer)

John Forster (2 April 1812 – 2 February 1876), was an English biographer and critic and a friend of author Charles Dickens.

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John Mills

Sir John Mills, (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, 22 February 190823 April 2005) was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.

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John Rhys-Davies

John Rhys-Davies (born 5 May 1944) is a Welsh actor and voice actor known for his portrayal of Gimli in ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy and the charismatic excavator Sallah in the ''Indiana Jones'' films.

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John Wemmick

John Wemmick is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations.

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Journeyman

A journeyman is a skilled worker who has successfully completed an official apprenticeship qualification in a building trade or craft.

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Julian Charles Becket Amyes

Julian Charles Becket Amyes (1917–1992), aka Julian Amyes, was a British film and television director and producer.

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Justine Waddell

Justine Waddell (born 4 November 1976) is a South African born British film and television actress.

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Karl Marx

Karl MarxThe name "Karl Heinrich Marx", used in various lexicons, is based on an error.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Kevin Connor (director)

Kevin Connor is an English film and television director currently based in Hollywood.

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Leeds Playhouse

Leeds Playhouse is a theatre in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the north of England.

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Letters of Charles Dickens

The letters of Charles Dickens, of which more than 14,000 are known, range in date from about 1821, when Dickens was 9 years old, to 8 June 1870, the day before he died.

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Literary realism

Literary realism is part of the realist art movement beginning with mid nineteenth-century French literature (Stendhal), and Russian literature (Alexander Pushkin) and extending to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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Litotes

In rhetoric, litotes is a figure of speech that uses understatement to emphasize a point by stating a negative to further affirm a positive, often incorporating double negatives for effect.

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Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author)

Lloyd Jones (born 23 March 1955) is a New Zealand author.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Bridge

Several bridges named London Bridge have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark, in central London.

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Lost in a Good Book

Lost in a Good Book is an alternative history fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde.

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Lucy Bailey

Lucy Bailey is a British theatre director, known for productions such as Baby Doll at Britain's National Theatre and a notorious Titus Andronicus which had many members of the audience fainting.

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Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (born Margaret Oliphant Wilson) (4 April 1828 – 20 June 1897), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs.

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Mark Lemon

Mark Lemon (30 November 1809, in London – 23 May 1870, in Crawley) was founding editor of both Punch and The Field.

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Martita Hunt

Martita Edith Hunt (30 January 190013 June 1969) was an Argentine-born British theatre and film actress.

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Masterpiece (TV series)

Masterpiece (formerly known as Masterpiece Theatre) is a drama anthology television series produced by WGBH Boston.

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Melbourne Theatre Company

The Melbourne Theatre Company (popularly known as MTC) is a theatre company based in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Melodrama

A melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, which is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to the emotions, takes precedence over detailed characterization.

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Michael Eaton

Michael Eaton (born 1954) is an English playwright and scriptwriter.

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Michael York

Michael York, OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson; 27 March 1942) is an English actor.

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Middle East

The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).

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Mike Newell (director)

Michael Cormac "Mike" Newell (born 28 March 1942) is an English director and producer of motion pictures for film and television.

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Miss Havisham

Miss Havisham is a character in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations (1861).

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Mister Pip

Mister Pip (2006) is a novel by Lloyd Jones, a New Zealand author.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Newgate novel

The Newgate novels (or Old Bailey novels) were novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s that were thought to glamorise the lives of the criminals they portrayed.

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Nick Ormerod

Nicholas Ronald Ormerod OBE (born 9 December 1951) is a British theatre designer and co-founder of the international theatre company Cheek by Jowl.

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Nineteenth-Century Literature

Nineteenth-Century Literature is a literary journal published by University of California Press.

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is author Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837–39.

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Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864–65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea (PNG;,; Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia.

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Patrick Doyle

Patrick Doyle (born 6 April 1953) is a Scottish film composer.

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Patsy Kensit

Patricia Jude Francis Kensit (born 4 March 1968) is an English actress, singer, model, and former child star.

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Paula Wilcox

Paula Wilcox (born 13 December 1949) is an English actress.

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Penal colony

A penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory.

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Penal transportation

Penal transportation or transportation refers to the relocation of convicted criminals, or other persons regarded as undesirable, to a distant place, often a colony for a specified term; later, specifically established penal colonies became their destination.

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Penguin Classics

Penguin Classics is an imprint published by Penguin Books, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House.

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Peter Carey (novelist)

Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist.

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Phillips Holmes

Phillips Holmes (July 22, 1907 – August 12, 1942) was an American film actor who appeared in 44 films between 1928 and 1938.

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Pip (Great Expectations)

Philip Pirrip, called Pip, is the protagonist and narrator in Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations (1861).

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Postcolonial literature

Postcolonial literature is the literature of countries that were colonised, mainly by European countries.

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Prison ship

A prison ship, often more precisely described as a prison hulk, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive detention for convicts, prisoners of war or civilian internees.

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Protagonist

A protagonist In modern usage, a protagonist is the main character of any story (in any medium, including prose, poetry, film, opera and so on).

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Protectionism

Protectionism is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import quotas, and a variety of other government regulations.

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Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (. The Guardian. Retrieved 10 April 2008 born 22 December 1962) is an English actor, film producer and director.

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Ray Winstone

Raymond Andrew "Ray" Winstone (born 19 February 1957) is an English film and television actor.

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Realism (arts)

Realism, sometimes called naturalism, in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements.

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Richard Henry Horne

Richard Hengist Horne (born Richard Henry Horne) (31 December 1802 – 13 March 1884) was an English poet and critic most famous for his poem ''Orion''.

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Richmond, London

Richmond is a suburban town in south-west London, The London Government Act 1963 (c.33) (as amended) categorises the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames as an Outer London borough.

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River Thames

The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.

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Robert G. Vignola

Robert G. Vignola (born Rocco Giuseppe Vignola, August 5, 1882 – October 25, 1953) was an Italian-born American actor, screenwriter and film director in American cinema.

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Robert Montgomery Presents

Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950, until June 24, 1957.

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Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.

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Rochester, Kent

Rochester is a town and was a historic city in the unitary authority of Medway in Kent, England.

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Roddy McDowall

Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) was an English-American actor, voice artist, film director and photographer.

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Romance novel

Although the genre is very old, the romance novel or romantic novel discussed in this article is the mass-market version.

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Ronald Frame

Ronald Frame (born 23 May 1953) is a prize-winning novelist, short story writer and dramatist.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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Sarah Miles

Sarah Miles (born 31 December 1941) is an English theatre and film actress.

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Sarah-Jane Varley

Sarah-Jane Varley is a British actress, best known for playing Sarah Foster in the 1980s BBC drama Howards' Way.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Satis House

Satis House is a fictional estate in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations.

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Serial (literature)

In literature, a serial, is a printing format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential installments.

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Siân Phillips

Dame Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips, (born 14 May 1933), known professionally as Siân Phillips, is a Welsh actress, author and singer.

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Simon Gipps-Kent

Simon Gipps-Kent (born Simon Trevor Kent; 25 October 1958 – 16 September 1987) was a prolific 20th century English theatre and film actor in the 1970s-80s, noted for his teen portrayals of British royalty and nobility.

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Southend-on-Sea

Southend-on-Sea, commonly referred to as simply Southend, is a town and wider unitary authority area with borough status in southeastern Essex, England.

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Spinster

Spinster is a term used to refer to an unmarried woman who is older than what is perceived as the prime age range during which women should marry.

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Stratford Johns

Alan Edgar Stratford Johns (22 September 1925 – 29 January 2002), known as Stratford Johns, was a South African-born British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for his starring role as Detective Inspector Charlie Barlow in the innovative and long-running BBC police series Z-Cars.

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Stuart Armstrong Walker

Stuart Armstrong Walker (March 4, 1888 - March 13, 1941) was an American producer and director in theatre and motion pictures.

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Tauchnitz publishers

Tauchnitz was the name of a family of German printers and publishers.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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The Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace was a cast-iron and plate-glass structure originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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The Great Exhibition

The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations or The Great Exhibition, sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held, was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851.

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The Pickwick Papers

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens's first novel.

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The Pilgrim's Progress

The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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The Uncommercial Traveller

The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens.

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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, translator, historian, mathematician, and teacher.

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Tory

A Tory is a person who holds a political philosophy, known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved throughout history.

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Valerie Hobson

Valerie Hobson, Baroness Profumo (Italy),(14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998), was an Irish-born actress who appeared in a number of films during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian.

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Walworth

Walworth is a district of south east London, England, within the London Borough of Southwark.

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Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

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William Harrison Ainsworth

William Harrison Ainsworth (4 February 1805 – 3 January 1882) was an English historical novelist born at King Street in Manchester.

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William Henry Wills (journalist)

William Henry Wills JP (13 January 1810 – 1 September 1880) was a British journalist, playwright, a newspaper editor and a close friend and confidant of the author Charles Dickens, who entrusted Wills with the task of forwarding his letters to his mistress Ellen Ternan.

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Wisbech

Wisbech is a Fenland market town, inland port and civil parish in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Wisbech & Fenland Museum

The Wisbech & Fenland Museum, located in the town of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, England, is one of the oldest purpose-built museums in the United Kingdom.

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell".

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