Upon arriving at one of these places, the title character of a novel is told he must “sit for his portrait,” which involves the employees visually examining him. In another novel, a man follows a seamstress to one of these places while investigating the mystery of a watch with the inscription “D.N.F.” The rent collector Pancks discovers that William, who is nicknamed the “father of” one of these places, is the heir to a significant fortune. To find out about a resident of one of these places, Arthur Clennam visits a parody of British bureaucracy called the Circumlocution Office. Alfred Jingle gets out of one of these places with the help of Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers. The title character of Little Dorrit is born in one of these specific institutions, where her father is held for decades. For 10 points, what institutions included the Marshalsea where Charles Dickens’s father was confined? ■END■
ANSWER: debtors’ prisons [accept synonyms such as jail in place of “prison”; prompt on prisons or jails or other synonyms]
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