Ebenezer Scrooge, Oliver Twist and David Copperfield were all borne from the mind of Charles Dickens, who is largely thought to be the best writer of the Victorian era. Through his own life he rose from extreme poverty to the highest echelons of society, but never forgot his roots and used his writing to highlight the challenges of the poor in the 19th century.

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