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Marshalsea
(redirected from Marshalsea Prison)

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Marshalsea
ancient London prison, long used for incarcerating debtors. [Br. Hist.: Benét, 640]


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There she is, the epitome of neatness, in the squalid atmosphere of the Marshalsea prison making order and making her father comfortable and sweeping and cleaning and tidying all the time," said Slater.
99 Claire Foy and Matthew Macfadyen A victim of her own father's debt, Little Dorrit has spent most of her young life holed up in Marshalsea Prison.
declares Mr Dorrit tonight as he prepares to leave Marshalsea prison in triumph.
 
 
 
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