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==Famous pickpockets== [[File:Frontispiece from the memoirs of George Barrington.jpg|thumb|upright|18th-century engraving showing pickpocket [[George Barrington]] being apprehended in action]] Famous fictional pickpockets include the [[Artful Dodger]] and [[Fagin]], characters from the [[Charles Dickens]]' 1838 novel ''[[Oliver Twist]]''. Famous true-life historical pickpockets include the Irish prostitute [[Chicago May]], who was profiled in books; [[Mary Frith]], nicknamed Moll Cutpurse; the [[Gubbins band]] of highwaymen; and [[Cutting Ball]], a notorious Elizabethan thief. [[George Barrington]]'s escapades, arrests, and trials, were widely chronicled in the late 18th-century [[media in London|London press]].
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