Top ten eccentrics in literature

For the Guardian, David McKie, author of Bright Particular Stars: A Gallery of Glorious British Eccentrics, named a top ten list of eccentrics in literature.One character on his list:Sairey Gamp, in Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles DickensIn the novels of Dickens it's the non-eccentrics who are in the minority, but Mrs Gamp is one of the richest among the majority with her unquenchable flow of