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Dickens' ghost 'based on Cornish surgeon' - BBC Newswww.bbc.com › news › uk-england-cornwall
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Barry West believes the famous literary ghost is based on a Dr Miles Marley, a 19th Century medical practitioner who met Dickens in London.
Guardian: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol inspired by visits to Cornwall |...
Historian claims Jacob Marley based on real man that the author met, with passages and descriptions also rooted in the county
Real story behind Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol has been...
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Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol might have very different origins from what you've always thought
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