Readers of the Mirror have voted on the top ten Dickens characters. And the winners are:

1. Ebenezer Scrooge – A Christmas Carol
2. Miss Havisham – Great Expectations
3. Sydney Carton – A Tale Of Two Cities
4. The Artful Dodger – Oliver Twist
5. Fagin – Oliver Twist
6. Joe Gargery – Great Expectations
7. Pip – Great Expectations
8. Nancy – Oliver Twist
9. Abel Magwitch – Great Expectations
10. Betsey Trotwood – David Copperfield

Not how I'd have had it, but there are some good picks there, and with Sydney in the top three, I'm reasonably content. How about you?

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  1. Marian Avatar

    Did the original poll include *all* of Dickens’s characters, I wonder? Frankly surprised to see Scrooge in 1st place.

  2. Gina Avatar

    I wouldn’t be surprised if name recognition had a lot to do with it. Practically everyone knows who Scrooge is, even if they’ve never read a word of Dickens.

  3. Selenia Avatar

    I like these but I too would have loved to have seen/voted in the poll.

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