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"My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip."

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Charles Dickens

1812-1870

A journalist before he was a novelist, Dickens wrote in monthly parts that sold in the tens of thousands, and used them to put debtors' prisons, workhouses and the courts in front of readers who had never seen them.