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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 84. Chapters: Marshalsea, Robert Seymour, All the Year Round, John Elwes, Ikey Solomon, George Cruikshank, John Leech, Charles Dickens, Jr., Georgina Hogarth, Henry Fielding Dickens, Joseph Grego, Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens, Gerald Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Dickens, Catherine Dickens, Augustus Dickens, Mary Dickens, Peter Gerald Charles Dickens, Francis Dickens, Robert William Buss, Frederick Dickens, Tavistock House, Hablot Knight Browne, Victor E. Neuburg, John Dickens, Staplehurst rail crash, Dickens of London, Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens, Walter Landor Dickens, Gads Hill Place, Household Words, Marshalsea Road, Dora Annie Dickens, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, John Forster, Cedric Charles Dickens, Alfred Lamert Dickens, Ellen Ternan, Lant Street, Charles Dickens Museum, Bleeding Heart Yard, Edward Dickens, James Lucas, Charles Irving Thornton, Kate Perugini, The Daily News, Wellerism, Bentley's Miscellany, Joseph Clayton Clarke, Dickens Family, Erasmus Augustus Worthington, Dickens, Nebraska, Once A Week, Dickens Fellowship, Dickens World, George and Vulture, Little Dorrit's Playground, Charles Kent, Six Poor Travellers House, Dickens' London, Tom Tidler's Ground. Excerpt: The Marshalsea was a prison on the south bank of the River Thames in Southwark, now part of London. From the 14th century until it closed in 1842, it housed men under court martial for crimes at sea, including those accused of "unnatural crimes," political figures and intellectuals accused of sedition, and-most famously-London's debtors, the length of their stay determined largely by the whim of their creditors. Run privately for profit, as were all prisons in England until the 19th century, the Marshalsea looked like an Oxbridge college and functioned as an extortion racket. For prisoners who could pay, it came with access to a bar, shop, and restaurant, ...
