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Charles Dickens had endowed the villain of his “The Old Curiosity Shop,” the dwarf Daniel Quilp, with every imaginable evil: he is a bitter, wife-beating, pedophiliac sociopath.

Again, in The Old Curiosity Shop, the starving of child servants is condemned by the way Sally Brass fed the Marchioness.

In The Old Curiosity Shop, ‘The Stranger’ is found to be the brother of the Grandfather. 

After The Old Curiosity Shop, the cult of childhood ... became endemic.

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