One character in this novel runs a school in Coketown and insists that his students learn "facts, facts, facts", but his plans for his own children are messed up by the daughter of a circus clown named Sissy Jupe.
One character in this novel is reprimanded for her definition of "horse". The young man named James Harthouse attempts to test the virtue of one character in this novel, but Mrs. Sparsit is intent on watching her. Stephen Blackpool and Mrs. Pegler are suspected of robbing the Bank belonging to Mr. Bounderby, an industrialist friend of one character in this novel. One character in this novel runs a school in Coketown and insists that his students learn "facts, facts, facts", but his plans for his own children are messed up by the daughter of a circus clown named Sissy Jupe. For ten points, identify his novel about the Thomas and Louisa Gradgrind, a novel by Charles Dickens.
One character in this novel is reprimanded for her definition of "horse".
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