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2 unusual facts about Abel Magwitch


Abel Magwitch

(The other is the 'Anwerks package' scene in Martin Chuzzlewit when Jonas Chuzzlewit, the murderer, is turned back as he boards ship for the Low Countries).

Later in the novel Magwitch and Compeyson are accused of a serious felony, being charged with putting stolen notes in circulation.


Dickens Fellowship

In 2002 the Fellowship campaigned to save an area of Kent marshland on the Hoo Peninsula which provided the setting to the opening chapter of Dickens's novel Great Expectations where the young Pip first encountered the escaped convict Magwitch.


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