He wrote a novel in which mill owner Josiah Bounderby fires Stephen Blackpool and Thomas Gradgrind runs a school in Coketown.
A novel by this author begins by contrasting the smuggler Cavalletto with the "cosmopolitan gentleman" Rigaud. In that novel, this author depicted characters frustrated by the Circumlocution Office, a bureaucracy devoted to doing nothing. This author wrote a novel in which teachers criticize a girl for wanting to carpet a room with pictures of flowers because they argue the only important things are "facts, facts, facts." One of this author's title characters marries Arthur Clennam after being raised in Marshalsea prison. He wrote a novel in which mill owner Josiah Bounderby fires Stephen Blackpool and Thomas Gradgrind runs a school in Coketown. For 10 points, name this author who criticized the abuses of Victorian England in his novels Little Dorrit and Hard Times.
A novel by this author begins by contrasting the smuggler Cavalletto with the "cosmopolitan gentleman" Rigaud.
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