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My dear Lord Butcher,

  Like most novelists, throughout my career, from time to time, I modelled
characters in my books upon people in my life.  But I think I did this less
in "Great Expectation" than in other books of mine, or if I did it, I did it
chiefly using persons known to me only slightly and fleetingly.  There are
hints of myself in Pip, hints of a young woman named Ellen Ternan in
Estella, and also of another woman I had first known when young, a Miss
Beadnell.  But they are hints only.  It would not be accurate to say the
characters in the book are modelled on real persons.


Faithfully yours,


Charles Dickens
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>Dear Sir,
>             Do any of the characters in Great Expectations reflect on the
>personality of relatives or friends you know, if so who?
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>Yours Faithfully,
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>Lord Lee Butcher of Colchester.
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