Mary Hogarth time, the chief solace of his labours". He wore Hogarth's ring for the rest of his life, and also requested a locket of her hair. Eight months after Hogarth's death, Charles and Catherine Dickens' second child and first daughter was born. Charles demanded that the child be named Mary, in memory of Hogarth. Hogarth is believed to influenced a number of Dickens characters. She is seen as the inspiration for Rose Maylie in "Oliver Twist", which was publishing serially when Mary died. In the book, Maylie suffered a sudden illness, although unlike Howarth, Maylie did not die. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, an
Jim Powell (British novelist) the Desmond Elliott Prize for first novels. It was reviewed in The New Zealand Herald. Powell's second novel, "Trading Futures", was published in 2016, and his third novel, "Things We Nearly Knew", in 2018. Jim Powell (British novelist) Jim Powell (born 17 May 1949 in London) is a British novelist, and is a direct descendant of the 19th-century novelist Thomas Love Peacock. Jim Powell was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he has a master's degree in history. He stood as a candidate for the Conservative Party against Geoffrey Robinson in the Coventry North-West constituency in the