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He rescued poor women from prostitution by creating “Urania House,” a place where former prostitutes could learn to take care of a home, read, and and write.
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Dickens has been linked to “The Ghost Club,” a famous paranormal investigation group in London.
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You know those secret bookcase passageways that are in movies, sometimes? Dickens had one of those! He had a whole bookcase filled with titles of fake books that opened a secret door.
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One of his first jobs was working in a blacking, or shoe polish factory where he put labels on bottles.