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''Barber, Black Sheep'' is a HistoricalFiction novel by Canadian author Ann Neville, released on February 14th, 2024 via Amazon self-publishing in both ebook and paperback formats. Set in VictorianEngland in the year 1870, it tells the story of Oliver Winslow, a kleptomaniac barber trying to move on after spending the better part of his twenties in prison. Unfortunately for Oliver, however, both his compulsive need to steal and his past continue to haunt him, even as he does his best to overcome his hardships and pursue his burgeoning relationship with Kittie Wilson, a scullery maid in the employment of Oliver's boss's best friend, a local nobleman.
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''Barber, Black Sheep'' is a HistoricalFiction novel by Canadian author Ann Neville, released on February 14th, 2024 via Amazon self-publishing in both ebook and paperback formats. Set in VictorianEngland [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain Victorian England]] in the year 1870, it tells the story of Oliver Winslow, a kleptomaniac barber trying to move on after spending the better part of his twenties in prison. Unfortunately for Oliver, however, both his compulsive need to steal and his past continue to haunt him, even as he does his best to overcome his hardships and pursue his burgeoning relationship with Kittie Wilson, a scullery maid in the employment of Oliver's boss's best friend, a local nobleman.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Notably averted. The only noblemen in the novel, Lord Issac Harrington and Oliver's half-brother Lucius are both remarkably kind and friendly fellows.
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* UnknowinglyPossessingStolenGoods: [spoiler: When Oliver returns home from Lord Harrington's party, proud of himself for not taking anything, he discovers that Harrington's missing watch has been planted in his pocket.]]
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* UnknowinglyPossessingStolenGoods: [spoiler: [[spoiler: When Oliver returns home from Lord Harrington's party, proud of himself for not taking anything, he discovers that Harrington's missing watch has been planted in his pocket.]]
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Oliver's time in prison counts as this. [[Spoiler: Kittie also has a fairly troubled past, having grown up poor, losing her father to illness because her family couldn't afford medicine, and having been abused by a former employer which left her with burn scars on her arms.]]
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Oliver's time in prison counts as this. [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: Kittie also has a fairly troubled past, having grown up poor, losing her father to illness because her family couldn't afford medicine, and having been abused by a former employer which left her with burn scars on her arms.]]
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* DisproportionateRetribution: [[Spoiler: Oliver stole a small family heirloom (admittedly a memento from their deceased mother) from Barry's half-brother and damaged it in the process of returning it, so Barry first decides to frame him for another theft. When that doesn't work, he upgrades to attempting to murder Oliver.]]
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* DisproportionateRetribution: [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: Oliver stole a small family heirloom (admittedly a memento from their deceased mother) from Barry's half-brother and damaged it in the process of returning it, so Barry first decides to frame him for another theft. When that doesn't work, he upgrades to attempting to murder Oliver.]]
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: [[Spoiler: The initial reason that Leslie Barry, the villain of the novel, decides to target Oliver is that Oliver stole and then damaged a small decorative glass horse that was an heirloom from his deceased mother.]]
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: The initial reason that Leslie Barry, the villain of the novel, decides to target Oliver is that Oliver stole and then damaged a small decorative glass horse that was an heirloom from his deceased mother.]]
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* TheHelpHelpingThemselves: [[Spoiler: Leslie Barry, Lord Harrington's butler, turns out to be responsible for the items going missing in his home.]]
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* TheHelpHelpingThemselves: [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: Leslie Barry, Lord Harrington's butler, turns out to be responsible for the items going missing in his home.]]
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* PlatonicLifePartners: Harrington and Spurgeon are a pair of these. [[Spoiler: Zigzagged when they end up becoming romantically involved near the end of the novel.
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* TakingTheBullet: [[Spoiler: In the climax, Evelyn leaps in front of a shot aimed at Kittie, which thankfully only hits her in the shoulder.]]
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* TakingTheBullet: [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: In the climax, Evelyn leaps in front of a shot aimed at Kittie, which thankfully only hits her in the shoulder.]]
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* UnknowinglyPossessingStolenGoods: [Spoiler: When Oliver returns home from Lord Harrington's party, proud of himself for not taking anything, he discovers that Harrington's missing watch has been planted in his pocket.]]
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* UnknowinglyPossessingStolenGoods: [Spoiler: [spoiler: When Oliver returns home from Lord Harrington's party, proud of himself for not taking anything, he discovers that Harrington's missing watch has been planted in his pocket.]]
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* AffectionateNickname: Oliver uses "Miss Kittie" for Kittie.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: [[Spoiler: Oliver stole a small family heirloom (admittedly a memento from their deceased mother) from Barry's half-brother and damaged it in the process of returning it, so Barry first decides to frame him for another theft. When that doesn't work, he upgrades to attempting to murder Oliver.]]
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* DotingParent: Birdie, Kittie's mother, is one of these. She decides to treat Oliver, her daughter's new boyfriend, as if he were her own son more-or-less the first day they meet.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: [[Spoiler: The initial reason that Leslie Barry, the villain of the novel, decides to target Oliver is that Oliver stole and then damaged a small decorative glass horse that was an heirloom from his deceased mother.]]
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* MoodWhiplash: Oliver and Kittie's trip to the Crystal Palace in London starts out as a cute and informative date, before Oliver's kleptomania causes an incident that utterly spoils the mood [[spoiler: and nearly breaks them up.]]
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* ParentalSubstitute: Spurgeon serves as a surrogate father for Oliver.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Harrington and Spurgeon are a pair of these. [[Spoiler: Zigzagged when they end up becoming romantically involved near the end of the novel.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Harrington and Spurgeon are a pair of these. [[Spoiler: Zigzagged when they end up becoming romantically involved near the end of the novel.
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* ShoutOut: The narration mentions that Oliver has left a copy of ''Literature/TheStringOfPearls'' (better known these days as Sweeney Todd'' on the magazine table in the barbershop.
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* DramaticShattering: This is what happens to the glass horse when Oliver tries to return it to Dunham, as a nearby hansom cab whizzes too close to comfort and startles Oliver into dropping the trinket.
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* FirstLove: Oliver and Kittie serve as this for one another. Oliver has never been in a relationship before, while all of Kittie's former suitors were rather mediocre men.
* FiveFingerDiscount: Oliver's typical method of stealing goods is simply plucking it from people's pockets.
* FiveFingerDiscount: Oliver's typical method of stealing goods is simply plucking it from people's pockets.
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* TheHelpHelpingThemselves: [[Spoiler: Leslie Barry, Lord Harrington's butler, turns out to be responsible for the items going missing in his home.]]
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* SexyDiscretionShot: There are a handful of love scenes between Oliver and Kittie in the novel, but none of them are particularly detailed and most of the act itself is glossed over.
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* SternOldJudge: The judge who sentenced Oliver to his time in jail is depicted as one of these.
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* TakingTheBullet: [[Spoiler: In the climax, Evelyn leaps in front of a shot aimed at Kittie, which thankfully only hits her in the shoulder.]]
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* ChoreCharacterExploration: Several conversations throughout the novel take place while Oliver or Kittie are taking care of household tasks and conversing with their respective halves of the supporting cast.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Oliver's time in prison counts as this. [[Spoiler: Kittie also has a fairly troubled past, having grown up poor, losing her father to illness because her family couldn't afford medicine, and having been abused by a former employer which left her with burn scars on her arms.]]
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* AnimalMotifs: There are numerous examples in the novel: Lord Harrington is compared to a dog, and his butler Leslie Barry is compared to a Badger. Most notable, the Wilson family consists of three women named Kittie, Bunny and Birdie [[spoiler: although it's subverted by the deceased father of the family, John.]]
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* FunetikAksent: Kittie's mother, Birdie, has her speech rendered this way.
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* ArtistocratsAreEvil: Notably averted. The only noblemen in the novel, Lord Issac Harrington and Oliver's half-brother Lucius are both remarkably kind and friendly fellows.
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* BigFancyHouse: The Harrington Estate is depicted as such.
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* CharacterCatchphrase: "A bit" serves as this for Lord Harrington. This is lampshaded by his daughter, Hannah, who points out her father's tendency to slip the words into his speech to Oliver, and then immediately lampshaded again when Hannah does it herself shortly afterwards, seemingly unintentionally.
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* DancesAndBalls: A dance held by Lord Harrington serves as the backdrop for a number of early chapters.
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* ForgottenFallenFriend: Lucy, their younger sister who died in infancy, serves as this for Evelyn and Winston. Their failure to remember her birthday greatly upsets Oliver.
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* PosthumousCharacter: By the time the novel begins, the Winslow siblings' parents, Morgana and Caspar, are already deceased and appear only in flashback. Lucy, the youngest Winslow sibling, also died in infancy, and Oliver reflects on her early loss regularly throughout the story.
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''Barber, Black Sheep'' is a HistoricalFiction novel by Canadian author Ann Neville, released on February 14th, 2024 via Amazon self-publishing in both ebook and paperback formats. Set in VictorianEngland in the year 1870, it tells the story of Oliver Winslow, a kleptomaniac barber trying to move on after spending the better part of his twenties in prison. Unfortunately for Oliver, however, both his compulsive need to steal and his past continue to haunt him, even as he does his best to overcome his hardships and pursue his burgeoning relationship with Kittie Wilson, a scullery maid in the employment of Oliver's boss.
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''Barber, Black Sheep'' is a HistoricalFiction novel by Canadian author Ann Neville, released on February 14th, 2024 via Amazon self-publishing in both ebook and paperback formats. Set in VictorianEngland in the year 1870, it tells the story of Oliver Winslow, a kleptomaniac barber trying to move on after spending the better part of his twenties in prison. Unfortunately for Oliver, however, both his compulsive need to steal and his past continue to haunt him, even as he does his best to overcome his hardships and pursue his burgeoning relationship with Kittie Wilson, a scullery maid in the employment of Oliver's boss.
boss's best friend, a local nobleman.
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* StickyFingers: Oliver "is" a kleptomaniac.
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* StickyFingers: Oliver "is" ''is'' a kleptomaniac.
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"Barber, Black Sheep" is a HistoricalFiction novel by Canadian author Ann Neville, released on February 14th, 2024 via Amazon self-publishing in both ebook and paperback formats. Set in VictorianEngland in the year 1870, it tells the story of Oliver Winslow, a kleptomaniac barber trying to move on after spending the better part of his twenties in prison. Unfortunately for Oliver, however, both his compulsive need to steal and his past continue to haunt him, even as he does his best to overcome his hardships and pursue his burgeoning relationship with Kittie Wilson, a scullery maid in the employment of Oliver's boss.
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"Barber, Black Sheep" is a HistoricalFiction novel by Canadian author Ann Neville, released on February 14th, 2024 via Amazon self-publishing in both ebook and paperback formats. Set in VictorianEngland in the year 1870, it tells the story of Oliver Winslow, a kleptomaniac barber trying to move on after spending the better part of his twenties in prison. Unfortunately for Oliver, however, both his compulsive need to steal and his past continue to haunt him, even as he does his best to overcome his hardships and pursue his burgeoning relationship with Kittie Wilson, a scullery maid in the employment of Oliver's boss.
Ann Neville's website can be found [[http://www.therestlesshistory.com here]].
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!! Barber, Black Sheep contains examples of:
*ATasteOfTheLash: Oliver experiences this punishment while at Flitwith Prison.
*AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Averted, as the novel's prominent Jewish character, Weldon Spurgeon, is Sephardic.
*BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: The novel ends with the reveal that Oliver and Kittie have had their first child, Lucy Junior, and that Winston and Laura have also had another child, Charles.]]
*BlackSheep: Oliver, as suggested by the title.
*BlueBlood: Both the Harringtons and Lucius are aristocrats.
*BetaCouple: The novel has two of them which form near the end of the work: [[spoiler: Harrington/Spurgeon and Cora/Hannah.]]
*BritainIsOnlyLondon: Averted. The novel isn't set in London, but in a town called Pilfershire, based loosely on Portsmouth.
*CrashIntoHello: Although she isn't his love interest, this is how Cora and Oliver meet for the first [[spoiler: and only]] time in the novel.
*CuteClumsyGirl: Cora.
*DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler: Oliver and Kittie name their first-born child Lucy, after Oliver's little sister who died as an infant.]]
*DeadPersonConversation: Played with, as [[spoiler: Lucy's ghost visits Oliver in prison, but doesn't really speak.]]
*DeathOfAChild: One of the Winslow siblings, Lucy, died as an infant prior to the events of the novel.
*DisappointingOlderSibling: This is how the Winslow family's patriarch, Caspar, viewed Oliver in relation to Winston.
*EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Leslie Barry.]]
*FondMemoriesThatCouldHaveBeen: Averted, as Oliver had an incredibly close relationship with his infant sister, Lucy, before she passed away. Later invoked by the narration when Oliver [[spoiler: either hallucinates or is visited by Lucy's teenage ghost during his stay in Flitwith Prison.]]
*GraveMarkingScene: Several of these are peppered throughout the novel.
*HalfSiblingAngst: Averted. Lucius repeatedly expresses how much he loves his half-siblings and their children.
*HatesTheirParent: Oliver despised his father, Caspar, before the latter's death.
*HellholePrison: Flitwith, where Oliver spent his incarceration, absolutely qualifies.
*LikeASonToMe: This is how Spurgeon views Oliver.
*LittleMissConArtist: Part of Kittie's backstory.
*MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It is ambiguous whether Oliver was hallucinating or whether he really saw [[spoiler: Lucy's ghost.]]
*MiddleChildSyndrome: Oliver's got a bad case of this.
*NeverGotToSayGoodbye: This causes Oliver no small amount of grief regarding [[spoiler: the death of his mother. It hits particularly hard because he refused to meet with her when she tried to visit him in prison shortly before her death.]]
*OverlyLongName: Oliver's half-brother, Lucius Marcus Julius Augustus Octavius Remus Marius Swanborough, qualifies for this.
*QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Lord Issac Harrington is one of these.
*RedHerring: As this is a partially a mystery novel, there are a number of individuals who serve as red herrings. Namely, anyone who had the opportunity to [[spoiler: plant the stolen watch on Oliver during the ball, such as Dunham, Cora, Hannah and Lucius.]]
*PeriodPiece: The book is naturally one of these, as a novel set in VictorianEngland.
*PrisonChangesPeople: Oliver leaves Flitwith Prison heavily traumatized and with a fear of the dark. Subverted, however, by the fact that it failed to rid him of the kleptomania that landed him in prison to begin with.
*PrisonersWork: Oliver spent a fair amount of his time at Flitwith pulling ropes apart by hand and digging up bushes.
*SculleryMaid: This is Kittie's role at the Harrington Estate.
*ShipperOnDeck: Simon and Cora serve as this for Kittie/Oliver. Averted by Evelyn, who is decidedly against the relationship [[spoiler: until the end of the novel.]]
*SpoiledSweet: Hannah Harrington.
*StickyFingers: Oliver "is" a kleptomaniac.
*SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Oliver feels like a failure compared to his siblings, Evelyn and Winston.
*TheButlerDidIt: [[spoiler: Played 100% straight, as the villain of the novel and the one who planted a stolen watch on Oliver is Lord Harrington's butler, Leslie Barry.]]
*TheDutifulSon: This is the role Winston played in the Winslow family when they were children, and the sense of responsibility for their collective well-being clearly extends to the present.
*UnclePennybags: Lucius serves as this for Oliver and the rest of the Winslow Family.
*UptownGirl: This describes the relationship between [[spoiler: Cora and Hannah.]] It also arguably applies to Oliver and Kittie, since Oliver comes from a middle-class merchant family while Kittie's family raised her in relative squalor.
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Ann Neville's website can be found [[http://www.therestlesshistory.com here]].
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!! Barber, Black Sheep contains examples of:
*ATasteOfTheLash: Oliver experiences this punishment while at Flitwith Prison.
*AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Averted, as the novel's prominent Jewish character, Weldon Spurgeon, is Sephardic.
*BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: The novel ends with the reveal that Oliver and Kittie have had their first child, Lucy Junior, and that Winston and Laura have also had another child, Charles.]]
*BlackSheep: Oliver, as suggested by the title.
*BlueBlood: Both the Harringtons and Lucius are aristocrats.
*BetaCouple: The novel has two of them which form near the end of the work: [[spoiler: Harrington/Spurgeon and Cora/Hannah.]]
*BritainIsOnlyLondon: Averted. The novel isn't set in London, but in a town called Pilfershire, based loosely on Portsmouth.
*CrashIntoHello: Although she isn't his love interest, this is how Cora and Oliver meet for the first [[spoiler: and only]] time in the novel.
*CuteClumsyGirl: Cora.
*DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler: Oliver and Kittie name their first-born child Lucy, after Oliver's little sister who died as an infant.]]
*DeadPersonConversation: Played with, as [[spoiler: Lucy's ghost visits Oliver in prison, but doesn't really speak.]]
*DeathOfAChild: One of the Winslow siblings, Lucy, died as an infant prior to the events of the novel.
*DisappointingOlderSibling: This is how the Winslow family's patriarch, Caspar, viewed Oliver in relation to Winston.
*EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Leslie Barry.]]
*FondMemoriesThatCouldHaveBeen: Averted, as Oliver had an incredibly close relationship with his infant sister, Lucy, before she passed away. Later invoked by the narration when Oliver [[spoiler: either hallucinates or is visited by Lucy's teenage ghost during his stay in Flitwith Prison.]]
*GraveMarkingScene: Several of these are peppered throughout the novel.
*HalfSiblingAngst: Averted. Lucius repeatedly expresses how much he loves his half-siblings and their children.
*HatesTheirParent: Oliver despised his father, Caspar, before the latter's death.
*HellholePrison: Flitwith, where Oliver spent his incarceration, absolutely qualifies.
*LikeASonToMe: This is how Spurgeon views Oliver.
*LittleMissConArtist: Part of Kittie's backstory.
*MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It is ambiguous whether Oliver was hallucinating or whether he really saw [[spoiler: Lucy's ghost.]]
*MiddleChildSyndrome: Oliver's got a bad case of this.
*NeverGotToSayGoodbye: This causes Oliver no small amount of grief regarding [[spoiler: the death of his mother. It hits particularly hard because he refused to meet with her when she tried to visit him in prison shortly before her death.]]
*OverlyLongName: Oliver's half-brother, Lucius Marcus Julius Augustus Octavius Remus Marius Swanborough, qualifies for this.
*QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Lord Issac Harrington is one of these.
*RedHerring: As this is a partially a mystery novel, there are a number of individuals who serve as red herrings. Namely, anyone who had the opportunity to [[spoiler: plant the stolen watch on Oliver during the ball, such as Dunham, Cora, Hannah and Lucius.]]
*PeriodPiece: The book is naturally one of these, as a novel set in VictorianEngland.
*PrisonChangesPeople: Oliver leaves Flitwith Prison heavily traumatized and with a fear of the dark. Subverted, however, by the fact that it failed to rid him of the kleptomania that landed him in prison to begin with.
*PrisonersWork: Oliver spent a fair amount of his time at Flitwith pulling ropes apart by hand and digging up bushes.
*SculleryMaid: This is Kittie's role at the Harrington Estate.
*ShipperOnDeck: Simon and Cora serve as this for Kittie/Oliver. Averted by Evelyn, who is decidedly against the relationship [[spoiler: until the end of the novel.]]
*SpoiledSweet: Hannah Harrington.
*StickyFingers: Oliver "is" a kleptomaniac.
*SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Oliver feels like a failure compared to his siblings, Evelyn and Winston.
*TheButlerDidIt: [[spoiler: Played 100% straight, as the villain of the novel and the one who planted a stolen watch on Oliver is Lord Harrington's butler, Leslie Barry.]]
*TheDutifulSon: This is the role Winston played in the Winslow family when they were children, and the sense of responsibility for their collective well-being clearly extends to the present.
*UnclePennybags: Lucius serves as this for Oliver and the rest of the Winslow Family.
*UptownGirl: This describes the relationship between [[spoiler: Cora and Hannah.]] It also arguably applies to Oliver and Kittie, since Oliver comes from a middle-class merchant family while Kittie's family raised her in relative squalor.
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