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Discoveries suggest St Pancras workhouse that may have inspired work of Charles Dickens was intended to be place of comfort

The discovery of a previously unknown letter by Charles Dickens has set off a hunt for a valuable missing painting that the author helped to create.In a handwritten note in schoolboy French, Dickens describes how an artist friend is working on a dramatic depiction of the death of the playwright Moli

But if Ebenezer Scrooge is a supreme feat of literary imagination, what's less well-known is that the character had an inspiration in real life. John Elwes was a man so truly miserly.

Documents believed to have been written by author withdrawn from auction after expert doubts veracity

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