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Tom Tiddler's Ground is the name of an 1861 short story by Charles Dickens, and the phrase "Tom Tidler's ground" appears in his novels Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield and Dombey and Son. "Tom Tiddler's Ground" is the title of a 1931 poem and a 1931 anthology of children's poetry edited by Walter de la Mare, and a 1934 novel by Edward Shanks. E. F. Benson mentions "Tom Tiddler's Ground" in his 1935 novel The Worshipful Lucia. "Tom Tiddler's Ground" is the name given to a piece of waste land in the 1962 children's novel No One Must Know by Barbara Sleigh.