On the subject of Dickens as Super-Celeb

[ladyramkin2000]

Little Nell (full name Eleanor Trent) is indeed the heroine of The 
Old Curiosity Shop.  The village where she dies and is buried is 
supposed to be Tong, in Shropshire.  So obsessed were people with the 
book when it first came out that someone actually inscribed her name 
in the burial register of the local church and the verger used to 
make the odd shilling by showing her grave to pilgrims.  I thought 
you would like to have this piece of quite useless information.

Sylvia (a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles)