Dickensian (TV series) window in "Scrooge", the most famous and acclaimed film-adaptation of "A Christmas Carol". Episode 19: The picture Bumble hangs in the workhouse is of Josiah Bounderby, one of the major characters in "Hard Times". One of the school trustees is Mrs Tisher, a character from "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". Amelia Havisham gazes at her wedding dress in the mirror—the same dress she will remain in throughout "Great Expectations", in a mad, obsessive reminder of Compeyson's betrayal of her; one day, the dress catches fire, Miss Havisham suffers severe burns, and she dies some weeks later. Episode 20: In an
Dora Annie Dickens Dora Annie Dickens Dora Annie Dickens (16 August 1850 – 14 April 1851) was the infant daughter of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. She was the ninth of their ten children, and the youngest of their three daughters. Born at 1 Devonshire Terrace, Dora Dickens was named after the character Dora Spenlow, the child-bride of David Copperfield in Dickens's 1850 novel "David Copperfield". According to Dickens's oldest daughter Mary, on the day of Dora's unexpected death on 14 April 1851, her father had spent much of his time "playing with the children and carrying little Dora about