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Author Wilkie Collins
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Fraud; Forgery; Deception; Betrayal—Fiction
Friendship
Psychology; Psychiatry; Mental Health; Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
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Author Charles Allston Collins
Genres Cross-genre i
Prose: Essay i
Prose: Report i
Subject Art; Design; Painting; Sculpture; Photography; Interior Decoration;
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16/6/1860

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Author Gerald Massey
Genre Poetry: Elegy i
Subjects Great Britain—Armed Forces; Militias
War; Battles; Peace; Military History; Weapons; Soldiers
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Author Charles Dickens
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Great Britain—Description and Travel
Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
Poverty; Poor Laws—Great Britain; Workhouses—Great Britain
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Retitled 'Tramps' in collected editions of the series

Dickens had strong feelings on the subject of begging and mendicity (see 'The Begging-Letter Writer', HW, Vol. I, 18 May 1850), and while openly describing in the present article some of his favourite Kent haunts and scenery, also reveals knowledge of the ploys used by tramps and beggars to extract donations from other pedestrians. In David Copperfield (1850), Dickens had described how the young David is robbed on the road to Dover by a young tinker who beats his female companion. 'The trampers', David recalls, '...inspired me with a dread that is yet quite fresh in my mind' (Ch. 13).

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Genre Prose: Snippet i
Subjects Education—Great Britain; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Food; Cooking; Gastronomy; Alcohol; Bars (Drinking Establishments); Restaurants; Dinners and Dining
Fraud; Forgery; Deception; Betrayal—Fiction
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
Natural Sciences (Astronomy / Botany / Geology / Natural History / Oceanography / Paleontology / Zoology)
Popular Culture; Amusements
Supernatural; Superstition; Spiritualism; Clairvoyance; Mesmerism; Ghosts; Fairies; Witches; Magic; Occultism
Theatre; Performing Arts; Performing; Dance; Playwriting; Circus
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Genre Prose: Serial Fiction i
Subjects Family Life; Families; Domestic Relations; Sibling Relations; Kinship; Home;
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Money; Finance; Banking; Investments; Taxation; Insurance; Debt; Inheritance and Succession
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16/6/1860

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Genre Advertisement(s) i
Subjects Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Newspapers; Periodicals; Journalism
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