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Stephenson appears as a character in the anime film Steamboy, in that world having apparently lived until 1866. In the English dub of the film his character also speaks with a rather posh stereotypical English accent and not the northern tones Stephenson used. (In fact, the first biography of Stephenson, by J. C. Jeaffreson, makes clear that Stephenson went to some trouble to lose "the diction, idiom or intonation of North-country dialect". See Jeaffreson, "The Life of Robert Stephenson, FRS," (1864) vol. 1, page 77.)
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