"who assumes the personality of the troubled baseball player Darryl Strawberry – a role for which she earned rave reviews. In 2005, she appeared as Lady Dedlock in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel ""Bleak House"". She had a starring role in the Irish film ""The Mighty Celt"", for which she won an IFTA award for Best International Actress. The same year she also appeared in ""A Cock and Bull Story"" with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon – a film version of the novel ""Tristram Shandy"". In 2006, Anderson won the Broadcasting Press Guild Television and Radio Award for"
"Meanwhile, Tulkinghorn is concerned Lady Dedlock's secret could threaten the interests of Sir Leicester and watches her constantly, even enlisting her maid to spy on her. He also enlists Inspector Bucket to run Jo out of town, to eliminate any loose ends that might connect Nemo to the Dedlocks. Esther sees Lady Dedlock at church and talks with her later at Chesney Wold – though neither woman recognises their connection. Later, Lady Dedlock does discover that Esther is her child. However, Esther has become sick (possibly with smallpox, since it severely disfigures her) after nursing the homeless boy Jo. Lady"
"and continues to seek her company despite her disfigurement. Unfortunately, Esther has already agreed to marry her guardian, John Jarndyce. Hortense and Tulkinghorn discover the truth about Lady Dedlock's past. After a confrontation with Tulkinghorn, Lady Dedlock flees her home, leaving a note apologising for her conduct. Tulkinghorn dismisses Hortense, who is no longer of any use to him. Feeling abandoned and betrayed, Hortense kills Tulkinghorn and seeks to frame Lady Dedlock for his murder. Sir Leicester, discovering his lawyer's death and his wife's flight, suffers a catastrophic stroke, but he manages to communicate that he forgives his wife and"
"Eddie Dickens Eddie Dickens is the lead character in six books by British author Philip Ardagh: and a number of Christmas short-stories specially written for Philip Ardagh's website. The character first appeared in print in the UK in 2000, but originally as a character in letters from Philip Ardagh to his young nephew Ben, who lived in Moscow at the time. Eddie's adventures have been translated into over 30 languages. The son of Laudanum and Florinda Dickens (referred to as Mr and Mrs Dickens throughout), Eddie is usually a victim of circumstances in a Victorian world populated by absurd relatives,"
"bankrupt Jellyby; Sir Leicester Dedlock's several cousins; and the Bagnet family, friends of the ex-soldier Sergeant George. The character of Clamb, clerk to the lawyer Tulkinghorn, was created by the screenwriter as a device for showing Tulkinghorn's motives and deeds without recourse to a narrator. Most of the storylines are portrayed substantially as they are in the novel, but somewhat abbreviated. The exceptions to this are in large part consequent to the aforementioned cull of minor characters. The plot mechanics around the possession of Lady Dedlock's letters, which involve Tony Jobling and Smallweed Junior in the novel, are considerably altered,"
"wants her to return. Inspector Bucket, who has previously investigated several matters related to ""Jarndyce and Jarndyce"", accepts Sir Leicester's commission to find Lady Dedlock. At first he suspects Lady Dedlock of the murder but is able to clear her of suspicion after discovering Hortense's guilt, and he requests Esther's help to find her. Lady Dedlock has no way to know of her husband's forgiveness or that she has been cleared of suspicion, and she wanders the country in cold weather before dying at the cemetery of her former lover, Captain Hawdon (Nemo). Esther and Bucket find her there. Progress"
"Jarndyce"" hangs over the heads of many conflicting heirs, confused by multiple wills. Possible beneficiary John Jarndyce of Bleak House welcomes orphaned cousins Ada Clare and Richard Carstone—also potential heirs—as his wards, and has hired Esther Summerson as a housekeeper and companion for Ada. Lady Honoria Dedlock, married to the imperious baronet Sir Leicester, is also a possible beneficiary of the estate. The Dedlocks' lawyer, Tulkinghorn, sniffs out a connection between Lady Dedlock and a newly deceased man called Nemo; as he tries to discover Nemo's true identity, Lady Dedlock secretly seeks information about the dead man herself. Meanwhile, Richard"
"hands of the moneylender Smallweed, who sells them to Sir Leicester. Guilty over her deception and not wanting to bring ruin to her husband, Lady Dedlock flees into a storm before Sir Leicester is able to tell her he does not care about her past. He has a stroke but sends Bucket after her. Bucket eventually realizes where she must be—the graveyard where Hawdon is buried—but Esther arrives to find her mother dead from exposure. A final Jarndyce will is found that closes the case in favour of Richard and Ada, but the estate has been consumed by years of"
"the Earl of Leicester to kill Doughty. According to the contemporary screed ""Leicester's Commonwealth"" (1584), Leicester desired Doughty's death because Doughty could incriminate him in the alleged murder of Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, refers to the Doughty incident in his poem ""Portsmouth's Looking Glass,"" as if it is a casual reference to judicial malfeasance that his readership will immediately recognise. Doughty's execution is the subject of Robert E. Howard's Solomon Kane poem, ""."" In the episode of the 1960s UK children's TV series Sir Francis Drake 'The Doughty Plot', the story of how"
"Captain George North. He alludes to the time gap between the serialisation and the publication as one volume in 1888 in his preface ""Critic [parodying Dickens's 'Cricket'] on the Hearth"": ""The tale was written years ago for a particular audience..."" The Paston Letters were Stevenson's main literary source for ""The Black Arrow"". ""The Black Arrow"" tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton. Outlaws in Tunstall Forest organised by Ellis Duckworth, whose weapon"
"the 1970s. In his book ""Private Peaceful"", the village is the home of the protagonist, Tommo, and it is one of the main settings for the book. In 1976 Morpurgo and his wife, Clare, set up the Farms for City Children charity which is based at Nethercott House in the parish. Poet Ted Hughes who lived nearby was a close friend and regular visitor to the Morpurgos and became the first president of the charity. Iddesleigh Iddesleigh is a village and civil parish in the county of Devon, England. The settlement has ancient origins and is listed in the ""Domesday"
"Lane to St Chad's Lane and northward"". In the 1920s, Sir Guy Dawber designed the gardens, annexe building and cottage of the property. Eastgate House, Rochester Eastgate House is a Grade I listed Elizabethan townhouse in Rochester, Kent, England. It is notable for its association with author Charles Dickens, featuring as Westgate in ""The Pickwick Papers"" and as the Nun's House in ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"". Now a Dickens Museum, the grounds of Eastgate House contain the Swiss chalet in which Dickens penned several of his novels. It was built in the 1590s for Sir Peter Buck, Mayor of"
"other enemies, Tulkinghorn deduces Lady Dedlock's secret and tries to use it to keep her in line. Tulkinghorn is murdered, with no shortage of suspects. Lady Dedlock is implicated, but Inspector Bucket reveals that her former maid Hortense is the murderess and had tried to frame Lady Dedlock. Richard and Ada are secretly married, but he is obsessed with the lawsuit, encouraged by John's unscrupulous friend Harold Skimpole and the conniving lawyer Vholes. As a result, Richard is penniless and his health is failing. Hawdon's letters—written by a young Lady Dedlock and revealing her secret–find their way back into the"
"Dedlock waits until Esther has recovered before telling her the truth. Though Esther and Lady Dedlock are happy to be reunited, Lady Dedlock tells Esther they must never acknowledge their connection again. Upon her recovery, Esther finds that Richard, having failed at several professions, has disobeyed his guardian and is trying to push ""Jarndyce and Jarndyce"" to conclusion in his and Ada's favour. In the process, Richard loses all his money and declines in health. He and Ada have secretly married, and Ada is pregnant. Esther has her own romance when Mr Woodcourt returns to England, having survived a shipwreck,"
"Eastgate House, Rochester Eastgate House is a Grade I listed Elizabethan townhouse in Rochester, Kent, England. It is notable for its association with author Charles Dickens, featuring as Westgate in ""The Pickwick Papers"" and as the Nun's House in ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"". Now a Dickens Museum, the grounds of Eastgate House contain the Swiss chalet in which Dickens penned several of his novels. It was built in the 1590s for Sir Peter Buck, Mayor of Medway and Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham Dockyard. The house then became home to five generations of his family. In 1687, the"
"Charles Dickens novels are littered with stock-market speculations, villains, swindlers and fictional speculators. Little Dorrit (1857) The financial house of Mr Merdle; Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) 'Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Company, modeled loosely on the South Sea Bubble,- is in essence a classic Ponzi scheme; Nicholas Nickleby (1839) Ralph Nickleby's great Joint Stock Company, United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company; David Copperfield (1850) the false accounting by the sycophant Uriah Heep, clerk to lawyer Mr Wickfield; South Sea Company The South Sea Company (officially The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain,"
"another Robert Dudley, styled Lord Denbigh, was born. The child died aged three in 1584, leaving his parents disconsolate. Leicester found comfort in God since, as he wrote, ""princes ... seldom do pity according to the rules of charity."" The Earl turned out to be a devoted husband: In 1583 the French ambassador, Michel de Castelnau, wrote of ""the Earl of Leicester and his lady to whom he is much attached"", and ""who has much influence over him"". Leicester was a concerned parent to his four stepchildren, and in every respect worked for the advancement of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl"
"Ernest Defarge Ernest Defarge is a fictional character in Charles Dickens' novel, ""A Tale of Two Cities"". Defarge is the owner of a wine shop in the slum of Saint Antoine in Paris. He and his wife Madame Therese Defarge are passionate advocates for revolution and regularly dispense and gather information from inside the wine shop. When the story starts, Defarge is harboring Dr. Alexandre Manette, his old employer, who has just been released from eighteen years of unjust and secret imprisonment in the Bastille. Defarge is incredibly loyal to Dr. Manette and truly cares for him, but he doesn’t"
"situated in Derbyshire. In that novel, Chatsworth House in Derbyshire is named as one of the estates Elizabeth Bennet visits before arriving at Pemberley. In the 2005 film adaptation of the novel, Chatsworth House itself represents Pemberley. In one scene characters discuss visits to Matlock and Dovedale. Sir Walter Scott's 1823 novel ""Peveril of the Peak"" is partly set in Derbyshire. The events of the play ""Arcadia"", by Tom Stoppard, take place in the fictional country house of Sidley Park in Derbyshire. Alfreton is mentioned in the novel ""Sons and Lovers"" by D. H. Lawrence, when a character gets a"
"including Mad Uncle Jack, Even Madder Aunt Maud and her stuffed stoat named Malcolm (or according to Mad Uncle Jack, Sally). He also has an identical cousin named Fabian, but is unaware of his existence until the fifth book, ""Horrendous Habits"". Eddie’s father is the only one to know that they are all simply characters in Mr Ardagh’s books. Eddie Dickens Eddie Dickens is the lead character in six books by British author Philip Ardagh: and a number of Christmas short-stories specially written for Philip Ardagh's website. The character first appeared in print in the UK in 2000, but originally"
"would anyone want to shoot him? And what of Richard's unique ability - he can tell which horse is going to win the race. Did that lead to his death? Or was it the arrival of gangs at the local races, keen to enlist Richard into their crime syndicates? Lord Francis Powerscourt Lord Francis Powerscourt is a fictional Victorian-Edwardian detective created by the author David Dickinson who has appeared in fifteen novels. (see https://www.goodreads.com/series/42760-lord-francis-powerscourt) Powerscourt is descended from Irish aristocracy, his ancestral home is Powerscourt House in County Wicklow, Ireland. Powerscourt's parents both died of Influenza while he was a"
"bit."" In cinema, the CGI movie ""Barbie in a Christmas Carol"" features a snooty cat named Chuzzlewit who is the pet of Barbie's character Eden Starling. John Travolta's character quotes from the novel in ""A Love Song for Bobby Long"". The novel features prominently in Jasper Fforde's novel ""The Eyre Affair"". Martin Chuzzlewit The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised between 1842 and 1844. While writing it Dickens told a friend that he thought it his best work,"
"that when his wife died, he went off on these further adventures. Bedford is also the place where the brother of ""H. F."" in ""A Journal of the Plague Year"" retired to avoid the danger of the plague, so that by implication, if these works were not fiction, Defoe's family met Crusoe in Bedford, from whence the information in these books was gathered. Defoe went to school in Stoke Newington, London, with a friend named Caruso. The novel has been assumed to be based in part on the story of the Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years stranded"
"Thackeray and Charles Dickens (in 1863 and 1870, respectively), Eliot was ""generally recognised as the greatest living English novelist"" at the time of the novel's final publication. ""Middlemarch"" is centred on the lives of the residents of Middlemarch, a fictitious Midlands town, from 1829 onwards—the years preceding the 1832 Reform Act. The narrative is variably considered to consist of three or four plots of unequal emphasis: the life of Dorothea Brooke; the career of Tertius Lydgate; the courtship of Mary Garth by Fred Vincy; and the disgrace of Nicholas Bulstrode. The two main plots are those of Dorothea and Lydgate."
"the surrounding county are settings for several Graham Joyce novels, including ""Dark Sister"", ""The Limits of Enchantment"" and ""Some Kind of Fairy Tale"". The Clarendon Park and New Walk areas of the city, along with an unnamed Charnwood village (""vaguely based upon Cossington"", according to the author) are some of the settings of the 2014 novel ""The Knot of Isis"" by Chrid McGordon. Leicester is the setting for the British children book series, The Sleepover Club, by authors Rose Impey, Narinder Dhami, Lorna Read, Fiona Cummings, Louis Catt, Sue Mongredien, Angie Bates, Ginny Deals, Harriet Castor and Jana Novotny Hunter."
"East End Literature East End Literature comprises novels, short stories, plays, poetry and non-fictional writings set in the East End of London. Crime, poverty, vice, sexual transgression, drugs, class-conflict and multi-cultural encounters and fantasies involving Jews, Chinamen (and women) and Indian immigrants are major themes. Among the first and most prominent authors to depict the East End in fiction was Charles Dickens (1812–70). His godfather had a sail making business in Limehouse, and he based the ""Six Jolly Fellowship Porters"" in ""Our Mutual Friend"" (1864–65) on a public house still standing there. The Red Bull, a now demolished inn situated"
"Redgauntlet Redgauntlet (1824) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Dumfries, Scotland in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson (a point first made by Andrew Lang) as ""in a sense, the most autobiographical of Scott's novels."" It describes the beginnings of a fictional ""third"" Jacobite Rebellion, and includes ""Wandering Willie's Tale"", a famous short story which frequently appears in anthologies. The novel's hero is a young man named Darsie Latimer. Early in the novel he is kidnapped by Hugh Redgauntlet, and taken to a village in Dumfries. Darsie's friend Alan Fairford sets out to rescue him. After"
"murder of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, Leicester pays Francis Drake to kill Thomas Doughty, who knows too much about it (Doughty had been executed by Drake for mutiny at sea). The work also reveals Leicester's monstrous sexual appetite and his and his new wife's lewd private lives, including abortions, illnesses, and other shortcomings. The death of their little son, which occurred shortly before the book's publication, is commented on with a biblical allusion in a stop press marginal note: ""The children of adulterers shall be consumed, and the seed of a wicked bed shall be rooted out."" A"
"the compensation to her — because he doesn't want to give a penny to Mrs Bardell's lawyers, the unscrupulous firm of Messrs. Dodson and Fogg. The generally humorous tone is here briefly replaced by biting social satire (including satire of the legal establishment). This foreshadows major themes in Dickens's later books. Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller, and Weller Senior also appear in Dickens's serial, ""Master Humphrey's Clock"". The novel has been adapted to film, television, and radio: In 1985 BBC released a 12-part 350-minute miniseries starring Nigel Stock, Alan Parnaby, Clive Swift and Patrick Malahide. According to Retrospect Opera, there was"
"Lord Francis Powerscourt Lord Francis Powerscourt is a fictional Victorian-Edwardian detective created by the author David Dickinson who has appeared in fifteen novels. (see https://www.goodreads.com/series/42760-lord-francis-powerscourt) Powerscourt is descended from Irish aristocracy, his ancestral home is Powerscourt House in County Wicklow, Ireland. Powerscourt's parents both died of Influenza while he was a child. His first wife and son drowned when their ship sunk in the Irish Sea. Powerscourt later remarried to Lady Lucy Hamilton and fathered two children, Olivia and Thomas, as well as becoming step father to Robert, Lady Hamilton's son from her first marriage. Twins Christopher and Elizabeth (known"
"area between the River Tyne and the River Tees. A later novel, ""The Greenlander"" (1978) concerns the whaling industry in Northeast England during the early days of steam-powered shipping. This was intended to be the first of a series but, to date, no further volumes have appeared. Mark Adlard Peter Marcus ""Mark"" Adlard (born 19 June 1932 in Seaton Carew) is an English novelist. The son of Arthur Marcus Adlard, an auctioneer, and Ethel (née Leech), Adlard was educated at the University of London (B.Sc.), Trinity College, Cambridge (M.A. 1954) and the Department of Education at Oxford. Aside from writing,"
"Alfred Jingle Alfred Jingle is a fictional character who appears in the novel ""The Pickwick Papers"" by Charles Dickens. He is a strolling actor and an engaging charlatan and trickster noted for his bizarre anecdotes and distinctive mangling of English syntax. He first appears in chapter two of the novel and accompanies the Pickwickians on their first coach journey. As they leave the Golden Cross Inn at Charing Cross, Jingle holds forth in characteristic mode on the dangers of decapitation as illustrated by low archways and the example of King Charles I, beheaded at nearby Whitehall Palace: ""Heads, heads -"
"Madame Defarge Madame Thérèse Defarge is a fictional character in the book ""A Tale of Two Cities"" by Charles Dickens. She is a tricoteuse, a tireless worker for the French Revolution, and the wife of Ernest Defarge. She is one of the main villains of the novel, obsessed with revenge against the Evrémondes. She ruthlessly pursues this goal against Charles Darnay, his wife, Lucie Manette, and their child, for crimes a prior generation of the Evrémonde family had committed. These include the deaths of her nephew, sister, brother, father and brother-in-law. She refuses to accept the reality that Charles Darnay"