Nelly Known as Little Nell, she is the principal character in The Old Curiosity Shop. She lives with her grandfather, when he falls into the clutches of Daniel Quilp she helps him escape London. The hardships endured during their wanderings are too much for the delicate Nell and she dies in a quiet village where she and her grandfather had gained employment. Trotter, Job is the servant of Alfred Jingle in The Pickwick Papers. He helps Jingle to deceive the Pickwickians, using a tale of woe and floods of tears to gain their sympathy. Trotwood, Betsey is the sympathetic great-aunt of David Copperfield who takes him in and raises him after he runs away from his abusive step-father, Edward Murdstone. Tulkinghorn, Josiah is Sir Leicester Dedlock's lawyer in Bleak House. Scheming and manipulative, he seems to defer to his clients but relishes the power his control of their secrets gives him over them. He learns of Lady Dedlock's past and tries to control her conduct, to preserve the reputation and good name of Sir Leicester. He is murdered, and his murder gives Dickens the chance to weave a detective's investigation of the murder into the plot of the closing chapters of the book. Tupman, Tracy is a member of Pickwick Club and a travelling companion of Mr Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers. He has a weakness for the fair sex, which leads to several misadventures. Turveydrop, Old Mr is the owner of a dance school in London in Bleak House. Turveydrop, Prince is the inheritor of a dance school in London and marries Caddy Jellyby in Bleak House. Twist, Oliver, an orphan inhabitant of a work-house, is the protagonist of Oliver Twist. V Vengeance, The A female revolutionary and friend of Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities. She is described as 'a short, rather plump wife of a starved grocer'. At the final execution she is left pondering the absence of Madame Defarge. Venus, Mr The taxidermist in Our Mutual Friend. He pretends to go along with Silas Wegg, only to inform Boffin of Wegg's scheme. He eventually marries Pleasant Riderhood. Vholes, Mr A Chancery lawyer who takes on Richard Carstone as a client in Bleak House. He squeezes all the litigation fees he can from Carstone, and then abandons him when Jarndyce and Jarndyce comes to an end. He obtains an introduction to Carstone from Harold Skimpole.