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In July 1853 Cruikshank issued the first number of his projected Fairy Library, a re-telling of the story of 'Hop-O'-My-Thumb, and the Seven-League Boots' accompanied by some splendid illustrations.

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Part of a series of articles on Central and Eastern Europe. See also 'Moldo-Wallachia', Household Words, VIII, No. 183;  'The Gipsy Slaves of Wallachia', Household Words, VIII, No. 185; 'A Wallachian Squire', Household Words, VIII, No. 189; 'Turks in Bulgaria', Household Words, VIII, No. 190; 'Protégés of the Czar', Household Words, VIII, No. 194; 'Varna', Household Words, VIII, No. 195; 'A Border of the Black Sea', Household Words, VIII, No. 200.

Compiled in large part from Thomas Keightley, The History of England, and from George L. Craik and Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England.

Dickens had long been furiously indignant about the law's apparent inability to put an end to the persecution of the millionaire philanthropist Angela Burdett Coutts by an Irish barrister called Richard Dunn.

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Part of a series of articles on Central and Eastern Europe. See also 'Moldo-Wallachia', Household Words, VIII, No. 183; 'Bucharest', Household Words,VIII, No. 184;  'A Wallachian Squire', Household Words, VIII, No. 189; 'Turks in Bulgaria', Household Words, VIII, No. 190; 'Protégés of the Czar', Household Words, VIII, No. 194; 'Varna', Household Words, VIII, No. 195; 'A Border of the Black Sea', Household Words, VIII, No. 200.

See also 'Want Places', Household Words, VII, No. 179.