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Marshalsea
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MARSHALSEA, English law. The name of a prison belonging to the court of the king's bench.



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In brief, in 1824, at age 12, he suffered physical deprivation and acute shame over a four-month period when he labored in a blacking factory and lived more or less in the streets while his father was detained in the Marshalsea Prison as a debtor.
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``Little Dorrit'' (1988) - Actually two films examining a father and daughter in the Marshalsea prison.
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