Sam asked:

Can someone help me understand the first page of this novel please? I am not sufficiently aware of the historical context to understand the references to Mrs. Southcott (who is she?) and the Cock-lane ghost (what is it?).

Marianne It's not important to the story, but I did find a nice analysis here:
http://dickens.stanford.edu/tale/issue1_gloss.html

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