![]() “Rose is effectively Mary – good, young and beautiful. “He and Catherine were just distraught,” said Price. Her death devastated the author, and she inspired the character of Rose Maylie in Oliver Twist. Mary lived with Dickens and his wife, her sister Catherine, and died suddenly in May 1837, at the age of 17. The exhibition also includes a page from Dickens’s handwritten manuscript of the novel, letters from Dickens discussing the writing process and a previously unseen locket belonging to the author, which contains a lock of hair from his sister-in-law Mary Hogarth. “I know the man’s character perfectly well, but as it would be necessary to describe his appearance also, I ought to have seen him, which (fortunately or unfortunately as the case may be) I have never done.” “In my next number of Oliver Twist, I must have a magistrate and casting about for a magistrate whose harshness and insolence would render him a fit subject to be ‘shewn up’ I have, as a necessary consequence, stumbled upon Mr Laing of Hatton Garden celebrity,” Dickens wrote. ![]() Laing’s office is a stop on the tour, while the letter in which Dickens asked for help in observing the magistrate will feature in the exhibition. ![]() ![]() ![]() Herbal Hill, formerly known as Little Saffron Hill. ![]()
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