If you could meet a historical figure, who would it be and why?

Today I’ll say Charles Dickens

This question comes around!

A writer and campaigner

An interesting man.

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Such a cast of characters

We’ve learned to know and love.

The very word Dickensian

Will conjure them all up.

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Himself a great performer

He’d do instalments live

Performing all the characters.

Would he do that for me?

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A writer and campaigner

He championed the poor.

The misery of the workhouse

He laid at people’s door.

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And then of course there’s Christmas

Traditions he’d invent.

The best bits of the season

Are largely down to him.

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He certainly wasn’t flawless

We know he had his faults.

But would I like to meet him?

Most certainly of course.