Oliver Twist & Me by Nicholas Blincoe

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The true story of my family and Charles Dickens’s Best-Loved Novel.

Dickens appropriated the tales of foundling and orphans, including that of Robert Blincoe whose memoir supplied the source material for his novel Oliver Twist.  Here, Nicholas Blincoe presents a dual biography of Dickens and his great-great-great-grandfather Robert, retracing the steps of both men from London and Kent to Manchester, including a stop at Gonalston Mill and in Lowdham.  328pp