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Please, sir, can I have a walk? Dickens biographer finds likely inspiration for Oliver Twist
The Guardian Australia
October 9, 2026
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<p>Exclusive: Theresa Musgrove unearths newspaper archives showing one Alice Shepherd was severely punished in 1836 for similarly innocent request</p><p>Could a consumptive young woman called Alice Shepherd have been the inspiration for Oliver Twist? That is a question now being po
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