Have googled until I'm cross-eyed ....

[AllyLally]

Can anyone help me with the last infuriatingly obscure question in a quiz I am doing?

The answer is a fictional character .... "which character was inspired by a woman who died in York Buildings Marylebone in 1849?"

Any suggestions gratefully received!

[cupid04]

Elizabeth Dickens?

[cupid04]

Sorry, scrub my answer.

[AllyLally]

Thanks for the suggestion but Elizabeth Dickens died in 1863. Like you, my first thought was a Dickens character but I can't find a death in 1849 to tie any of them up too ... sigh

[cupid04]

Perhaps someone else may help. Good luck! Have a rest then come back to it with a fresh mind.

[FredPuli43]

Frustratingly, one inspiration for a character in Dickens died, in reality, in 1849. Hortense, the murderous maid who kills Tulkinghorne in Bleak House, was based on the murderess Mrs Manning , hanged in that year. Dickens attended the execution. But she obviously didn't die IN York Buildings, even if she ever had any connection with them, so the trail, as they say, goes cold. Still, if it is a Dickens character, that only leaves 988 named characters to go !

[wolf63]

I have googled and googled and found nothing.

What quiz are you doing? Were the other questions hard to answer?

I might try again in the morning ;-)

[smouse]

Its the quiz for charity summer quiz which costs £7 and is a difficult quiz

Shame you need to ask it is out there if you google long enough

[Trussell]

Can you give us clue, then smouse, please, as I am bog-eyed with looking?

[smouse]

No sorry I wont
If I can find it with googling then I think so can you

[Gromit]

York Buildings is Sherlock Holmes territory, but I cannot make the connection?

[AllyLally]

Can you give me a pointer smouse? I've spent many hours on this question to no avail ... my googling is obviously not up to scratch :-(

[smouse]

If you only need that one you'll win the £100 anyway so am sure it doesnt matter

[MissCommando]

lol it's obvious smouse hasn't found it at all. I couldn't find anything either!

[smouse]

Believe me I have
I could have just not replied to the request for help but am being honest in saying sorry I wont help

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Then why post Smouse?
Provide a clue or don't, but why say I know but I'm not going to help?

[smouse]

all I said was its there if you google and it went from there
I wont reply again good luck all happy googling

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

I get what you're saying Smouse but "If you Google it" is any answer to any question.
Maybe a clue in which direction to Google would have helped? I hope you see my point. No slant was intended.

[Ann]

Charles Dickens, then 12 years old, was boarded with Elizabeth Roylance, a family friend, in Camden Town.[18] Roylance was "a reduced [impoverished] old lady, long known to our family", whom Dickens later immortalised, "with a few alterations and embellishments", as "Mrs. Pipchin", in Dombey and Son.

Could it be this?

[barmy]

http://faculty.mdc.ed...xt/ENC1102genesis.htm

Googled as smouse suggested and this came up - link to Great Expectations

[factor-fiction]

That link doesn't work for me