Which Dickens character was the illegitimate child of Edwin Leeford and Agnes Fleming?
Oliver Twist (1999 miniseries) Oliver Twist (1999 miniseries) Oliver Twist is a 1999 television miniseries produced by ITV based on the book "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens. The first episode revolved around Oliver's parents (Agnes Fleming and Edwin Leeford) as they struggled to fight their love for each other. Edwin struggled with his estranged wife Elizabeth Leeford, mother of his son Edward Leeford (later also "Monks"), and Agnes struggled with her family's life. When it came to them both being together, Elizabeth murdered Edwin and planned on murdering Agnes. She made Monks kill her, but Agnes ran away; her sister Rose (Keira Knightley) witnessed
Oliver Twist (character) police; Sikes falls to his death when he's about to be captured and taken away. Oliver is revealed to be the illegitimate son of a rich man named Edwin Leeford and his young mistress, a girl named Agnes Fleming. Leeford had also fathered another son, Edward ("Monks"), through a failed former marriage. After seducing Agnes, Leeford died, leaving a will which stated that the unborn child would inherit his estate if "in his minority he should never have stained his name with any public act of dishonour, meanness, cowardice, or wrong" in the event of which all would go to