The Perils of Certain English Prisoners

The Perils of Certain English Prisoners is a short fiction work by Charles Dickens, a Victorian novelist known for his masterpieces A Tale of Two Cities, and Oliver Twist.

Excerpts:

My lady remarks to me, before I go any further, that there is no such christian-name as Gill, and that her confident opinion is, that the name given to me in the baptism wherein I was made, &c., was Gilbert.  She is certain to be right, but I never heard of it.  I was a foundling child, picked up somewhere or another, and I always understood my christian-name to be Gill.