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Marshalsea
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Prison in Southwark, south of the river in London, in use from at least the 14C. In later centuries it was mainly used for debtors. Dickens' father was imprisoned here for debt in 1824, and the prison features largely in *Little Dorritt. It was closed in 1842.
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