List of Dickensian Characters - M

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• Magwitch, Abel is a convict in Great Expectations. He is the father of Estelle, and Pip's benefactor.
• Magnus, Peter is a nervous and jealous man whom Mr Pickwick meets on the coach to Ipswitch in The Pickwick Papers. Magnus is on the way to propose to Miss Witherfield, but Pickwick causes a falling-out between the two after a misunderstanding involving Pickwick blundering into the wrong room in the inn where they are staying.
• Manette, Dr Alexandre is the father of Lucie Manette in a A Tale of Two Cities, and a former prisoner in the Bastille.
• Manette, Lucie is the daughter of Dr Alexandre Manette in A Tale of Two Cities.
• Mann, Mrs is a woman in Oliver Twist who raises infant orphans on the parish farm. She is not the most motherly of women (hence her surname) and she maltreats the orphans with corporal punishment and starvation.
• Mantalini, Mr and Madame: Milliners, Kate’s employers in Nicholas Nickleby.
• Marley, Jacob is the former business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge, Marley visits Scrooge as a ghost in A Christmas Carol.
• Marton, Mr Kindly schoolmaster who befriends Nell and her grandfather. He meets up with them again at the end of their journey and obtains a situation for them in the village church where he has been appointed clerk in The Old Curiosity Shop.
• Mary Pretty housemaid of Nupkins, the Mayor and principal magistrate of Ipswich, whom Samuel Weller pursues throughout The Pickwick Papers. Later Arabella Allen's maid, and then hired as housemaid by Samuel Pickwick. She marries Sam Weller at the end of the novel.
• Mary Anne Incompetent maid to David and Dora Copperfield in David Copperfield.
• Maylie, Mrs Mother of Harry and the adopted mother of Rose in Oliver Twist.
• Maylie, Harry Son of Mrs Maylie, he marries Rose in Oliver Twist.
• Maylie, Rose A poor girl adopted by Mrs Maylie, she and Mr Brownlow endeavour to help Oliver through Nancy. When Nancy's conversation with Rose on London Bridge is overheard by Claypole, Nancy is murdered by Sikes. She later marries Harry in Oliver Twist.
• M'Choakumchild, Mr, grinding schoolteacher in Hard Times.
• Merdle is an unscrupulous banker in Little Dorrit. His enterprises lead to the ruin of the Dorrits and he commits suicide when his fraud is uncovered.
• Micawber, Wilkins exposes the deeds of Uriah Heep in David Copperfield.
• Molly is the mother of Estella in Great Expectations, and the former mistress of Abel Magwitch.
• "Monks" See Leeford, Edward.
• Murdstone, Mr is the second husband of David Copperfield's mother, Clara.