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Mrs Lirriper’s Lodging – 1863 – A Short Story
 Mrs Lirriper and Major Jackman This was a Christmas short story published on 12 Dec 1863 in All the Year Round. Also in this issue were: Elizabeth Gaskell, How the First Floor Went to Crowley Castle Andrew Halliday, How the Side-Room was Attended by a Doctor Edmund H. Yates, How the Second-Floor Kept a Dog Amelia B. Edwards, How the Third-Floor Knew the Potteries Charles Allston Collins (Dickens’s son-in-law), How the Best Attic was Under a Cloud |
| THE STORY: Emma Lirriper runs a boarding house at Number Eighty-One Norfolk Street in The Strand. She follows saves Mrs Edson as she is about to throw herself into the Thames. She and her lodger, Major Jackman, adopt a child of a lodger who died in childbirth.  Willing Sophy | THE CHARACTERS: · Betley, Mr · Bobbo · Edson, Mr · Edson, Peggy · Jackman, Jemmy (Major) · Jane · Lirriper · Lirriper, Emma (Gran) · Lirriper, Jemmy Jackman · Maxey, Caroline · Perkinsop, Mary Ann · Polly · Seraphina · Sophy (Willing Sophy) · Wozenham, Miss |
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