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  1. 3 days ago · A Tale of Two Cities. by Charles Dickens. Set against the backdrop of the French revolution, A Tale of Two Cities is the best place to start for a tense political novel. Dr Manette is finally reunited with his daughter Lucie after eighteen years of wrongful imprisonment in the Bastille.

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  2. 2 days ago · The police rapidly abandoned most of their posts along the valley, falling back to more easily defensible locations; Inspector Francis Dickens was forced to flee Fort Pitt with his men on a makeshift boat.

    • 1920
    • As per operations jurisdiction
  3. 5 days ago · Treasury warrant to Francis Dickens, late Woodward of New Forest, to pay over the moneys in his hands to Edward Pyle the present Woodward of said forest, to be applied to keepers' wages &c. Ibid, pp. 388–9. June 22.

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  5. 3 days ago · Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth, where his father worked as a clerk. Living in London in 1824, Dickens was sent by his family to work in a blacking-warehouse, and his father was arrested and imprisoned for debt. Fortunes improved and Dickens returned to school, eventually becoming a parliamentary reporter.

  6. 3 days ago · In 1707 Francis Dickens and his wife Rachael sold the manor of Northington, with Totford and Swarraton, to Anthony Henley, with whose estate at the Grange it has since descended. TOTFORD

  7. 5 days ago · 1+. Charles Dickens, born on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, England, is one of the most celebrated and influential authors in literary history. His novels, such as “A Tale of Two Cities” and “Great Expectations,” have left an indelible mark on literature and continue to resonate with readers today.

  8. 4 days ago · The lease was held in trust by Rachel's executors, of whom Thomas Dickens became lessee by 1704. In 1724 it was renewed by Francis Dickens, lawyer, whose widow Rachel was lessee from 1747 and had devised it by 1761 to a cousin Anthony Dickens (d. 1795).

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