==="I gather the story MtheGM had about the origin of the name Fagin isn't quite accurate - "The story goes that Dickens was bullied by a big Irish lad called Fagan in his days in the blacking factory, so called his first real villain by a similar, but not identical, name as a revenge on him."====

Yes, I know, Kevin. I went on later to modify my original post.

~M~