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To celebrate Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday, our favourite Victorian literary author, we are giving away two copies of Nick Barratt’s Who Do You Think You Are? Encyclopedia of Genealogy books, signed by TV presenter and historian Tony Robinson.
This Encyclopedia of Genealogy is a step-by-step guide to tracing your family history and will help you bring to life your family’s past by building out your family tree and illuminating what your ancestors’ lives were really like.
To be in with a chance of winning, all you have to do is tell us who your favourite Dickensian character is by posting their name as a comment below. Perhaps it is Miss Havisham from ‘Great Expectations’ or Josiah Bounderby in ‘Hard Times’?
All entrants will be entered into a prize draw and two will be selected at random.
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Wilkins Micawber from David Copperfield
Lucie Manette from A Tale of The Two Citys
Amy Dorrit (Little Dorrit) is my favourite.
Bob Cratchit – A Christmas Carol.
My G. Grandfather was a Lawyer’s Clerk and lived in Theobalds road, close to where Charles Dickenson lived. However, from Ancestry research I found that he lived the last 20yrs of his life in the workhouse.
I can relate to Bob Cratchit.
Trotty Veck
Oliver Twist
MR MICAWBER – From David Copperfield,
who reminds me of my Grandfather, when He was alive. I am researching him now through Ancestry.co.uk.
Bob Cratchit – A Christmas Carol
Bill Sykes from Oliver Twist
Amy Dorrit, from Little Dorrit
fagin from oliver twist
Nancy from Oliver Twist
Tiny Tim from A Christmas Carol
Martin Chuzzlewit
David Copperfield
The Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist
Nancy from Oliver Twist
Fezziwig from a Christmas Carol
Abel Magwitch from Great Expectations – his back story is just so sad…
Maybe a less popular book – but John Rokesmith from Our Mutual Friend is a compelling character.
Krook from Bleak House
Uriah Heep from David Copperfield
Betsy Trotwood from David Copperfield.
Mr Bazzard from The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Nancy from Oliver Twist
Miss Mowcher (Charles Dickens)
She is so me!
Abel Magwitch from Great Expectations.
Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist
The Ghost of Christmases Past from A Christmas Carol
Betsy Trotwood from Great Expectations
Martin Chuzzlewit…
Also Charles Dickens is my Paternal Grandfather of the wife of my 4th cousin twice removed. Quite a find in my research x
Pip from Great Expectations
Bob Cratchit (A Christmas Carol) – hard-working but overworked, underpaid (!)
Noddy Boffin from Our Mutual Friend.
Amy Dorrit from Little Dorrit
Oliver From Oliver Twist
I loved little Doritt. and would love the book
The Artful Dodger.
Artful dodger!! 
Nell Trent from The Old Curiosity Shop..
The Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist
Scrooge [Christmas Carol]
Past-life niece was read-the-book by-her-boss Henry J Fate on day-of-publication; she loved reading & the Disney Adaptation.
Spending most-of 2010 in her home-town Elizabeth visited Manchester Central Library opened-by Charles Darwin & William Thackery: http://www.porterville.co.uk/
The Ghost of
The Ghost of Christmas Present from A Christmas Carol
christmas
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Nancy from Oliver Twist is my favourite Dickensian character because she is a kind woman with a heart of gold who risked her life for Oliver.
Ebenezer Scrooge – A Christmas Carol
Uriah Heep
Nancy from Oliver Twist is my favourite Dickensian character because she is a kind woman with a heart of gold who risks her life for Oliver.
It’s got to be Nancy from Oliver Twist … having discovered my 4G grandmother in 1871 in the Magdelen Home for Reformed Prostitutes and then followed her career through one marriage and four other men I have a sneaking suspicion she was very like Nancy
Madame Defarge from A Tale of Two Cities
I vote for Oliver Twist as my Gt Grandfather was an orphan child and my Gt Gt Grandfather died in the Bethnal Green Workhouse.
Mrs Nickleby
Tiny Tim from A Christmas Carol.
Nancy from Oliver Twist
Barnaby Rudge’s Raven Grip, if that counts as a character, for the humour.
Ebeneezer Scrooge – A Christmas Carol
Joe Gargery from Great Expectations
Fred from aA Christmas Carol
Uriah Heep
Ebeneezer Scrooge
Pip from Great Expectations
Samuel Weller from The Pickwick Papers
Estella from Great Expectations
Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol
Artful Dodger, because like me as kid, had to think on his feet-to stay one step ahead to survive.
My husband’s favourite character is Mr Bumble from Oliver Twist.
Oliver twist
The artful dodger is the obvious choice for me, the way that dickens creates dodger’s wit and cleverness is just pure gold, I never get bored when reading Oliver Twist, it is the kind of book that you could read 1000 times and never get bored!
Joe Gargery from Great Expectations – hardworking, honest and family loving who sttod bythem no matter what
Pip from ‘Great Expectations’ I love that story, although it was a hard choice because Charles Dickens was a brilliant author.
Abel Magwitch for me!
Ebeneezer Scrooge. His great change of heart within only a few pages is awesome. Good book too.
Pip Great Expectations he portrays so well how people sometimes behave towards those left behind who supported them before they got their wealth.
Ebaneezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol A reformed character
Toby Veck from The Chimes
Oliver Twist
Mr. M’Choakumchild,from Hard Times.
Well we have all been tempted at one time or the other, and in Dickensian times very possible!
Mrs Sniff from Mugby Junction as “she held the public in check”
Edwin Drood , from Dickens unfinished novel ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ We will never know for sure how Dickens intended to solve this mystery.
Bob Cratchit from A Christmas Carol
Madame Defarge
Little Dorrit
Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield.
Artful Dodger
Fagin-Oliver Twist
Nancy from Oliver Twist
Charles Darnay from Tale of Two Cities
Bull’s-Eye
Bumble ~ Oliver Twist
Ebenezer Scrooge. What a legend! Coined one of my favourite sayings “bah humbug!”
Agnes Wickfield in David Copperfield
David Copperfield – The first Dickens book I read at the age of ten.
Nicholas Nickleby is my favourite Character by Charles Dickens
Mrs Rudge (mother of Barnaby), of course!
Oliver Twist
The artful dodger (Oliver Twist)
Olive Twist
Oliver Twist
Mr Micawber’s philosophy has been my inspiration since first finding him 75 years ago.
Ebenezer Scrooge from ‘A Christmas Carol’.
The eternal optimist Mr Micawber
This may sound rather simple but I do love Oliver Twist, as many people do as it is now a very famous book and musical. I love the way Dickens explores Oliver’s character.
Another vote for Mr Micawber.
Bumble – in Oliver Twist.
Betsy Trotwood from David Copperfield
Abel Magwitch from Great Expectations
Pip from Great Expectations
Ebenezer Scrooge
Joe Gargery from Great Expectations
Sydney Carton from A Tale of Two Cities. It’s never too late to do something honourable.
Abel Magwitch from Great Expectations
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Abel Magwitch from Great Expectations