"sweet and good, like her brother. At first she works as a governess to a wealthy family with several nasty brats. Later in the novel she and Tom set up housekeeping together. She falls in love with, and marries, Tom's friend John Westlock. Mark Tapley, the good-humoured employee of the Blue Dragon Inn and suitor of Mrs Lupin (the Dragon's owner), leaves that establishment to find work that's more of a credit to his character: that is, work sufficiently miserable that his cheerfulness will be more of a credit to him. He eventually joins Young Martin Chuzzlewit on his trip"
"chalking ""witch circles"" on the floor in front of each hearth to prevent witches from getting in through the chimneys. There are also ""witch marks"" on the inside of the door, to keep evil spirits out. The BBC used The Fleece Inn and the surrounding village green for its 1994 production of Charles Dickens' novel Martin Chuzzlewit; the pub was renamed the ""Blue Dragon"" for the duration of shooting The Fleece Inn The Fleece Inn is a public house in Bretforton, in the Vale of Evesham, Worcestershire, England: the half-timbered building, over six hundred years old, has been a pub"
"Inn Cellar' was a place well known to the professional gentlemen, where a good dinner may be had at a reasonable price."" The Inn was dissolved as a society in 1817 when Lincoln's Inn did not renew its lease and the medieval building was demolished in 1818. The building was rebuilt as apartments by a new owner who retained the old name. Charles Dickens rented rooms here between December 1834 and throughout the first year of his marriage, until 1837. He began the ""Pickwick Papers"" while a tenant there. The character John Westlock in ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" lives in Furnival’s Inn,"
"Castle Inn The Castle Inn is a public house in West Lulworth, Dorset, England, which dates from the 16th century. It was originally called The Green Man, and later The Jolly Sailor. , the pub is a popular traditional pub and hotel. The Castle Inn has a focus upon traditional real ales, real ciders and great fresh food. The pub has changed names many times during its history. It has been known as both the Green Man and the Traveller's Rest at various points. It is currently named after the early 17th century hunting lodge Lulworth Castle, situated in East"
"food on offer is peanuts. The room has no till, music or electrical distractions, and the only staff member is the landlady, Vera Mary Wright (commonly known as Mary), who rarely serves anyone but the local regulars. Wright has a reputation for testing new customers by handing them puzzles. The pub has been run by Wright's family for more than 100 years; she inherited it from her husband, William Wright, who in turn inherited it from his father, Charles Wright. Luppitt Inn The Luppitt Inn is the only public house at Luppitt, Devon. Located in the front rooms of a"
"Dickens by his friend, Angela Burdett-Coutts. In an 1844 stage version of ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" authorised by Dickens at the Queen's Theatre Sarah Gamp was played by the actor and comedian Thomas Manders. Mrs. Gamp appears in ""Dickensian"", at first nursing Little Nell at the Old Curiosity Shop and later tending to Silas Wegg (from ""Our Mutual Friend""), played by Pauline Collins. Sarah Gamp Sarah or Sairey Gamp is a nurse in the novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" by Charles Dickens, first published as a serial in 1843–1844. Mrs. Gamp, as she is usually referred to, is dissolute, sloppy and generally drunk. She"
"Sarah Gamp Sarah or Sairey Gamp is a nurse in the novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" by Charles Dickens, first published as a serial in 1843–1844. Mrs. Gamp, as she is usually referred to, is dissolute, sloppy and generally drunk. She became a notorious stereotype of untrained and incompetent nurses of the early Victorian era, before the reforms of campaigners like Florence Nightingale. The caricature was popular with the British public. A type of umbrella became known as a ""gamp"" because Mrs. Gamp always carries one, which she displays with ""particular ostentation"". The character was based upon a real nurse described to"
"Mrs & Mrs Chicklaid - proprietors of the Bull Inn at Little Staughton Sprig Muslin Sprig Muslin is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer. The story is set in 1813. Sir Gareth is a noted Corinthian and has been a confirmed bachelor ever since his betrothed died prematurely, seven years ago. He decides for practical reasons to marry an old friend, Hester, who is unfashionable and plain, not to mention ""on the shelf"" at the age of 29. However, he soon meets a young, run-away girl and determines to resolve her problems satisfactorily. Unfortunately, this particular runaway is possessed"
"damage in February 2005 and has now been completely restored. A curious mediaeval tradition also survives at the Fleece, preserved in accordance with Lola's wishes. This is the practice of chalking ""witch circles"" on the floor in front of each hearth to prevent witches from getting in through the chimneys. There are ""witch marks"" on the inside of the door as well to ward off evil spirits, The BBC has also used the Fleece Inn and the surrounding village green for its 1993 £5 million production of Charles Dickens' ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" where the pub was renamed the ""Green Dragon"" for"
"train, on which their spouses travelled without them. The inn is run by the formidable, prudish Mrs Spoker. Only one bedroom is available, and as it is very clear that Mrs Spoker will not admit an unmarried couple, Peter and Marguerite check in as husband and wife. This deception has to be perpetuated publicly when they meet another guest at the inn, the Rev Cathcart Sloley-Jones, who knows Marguerite; she introduces Peter as her husband, Claude Hickett. At Mrs Spoker's insistence, Pansy, Marguerite's little dog, is banished to sleep in the stables, and Peter and Marguerite retire to their bedroom."
"staggering. As well as that the pub is a beautiful place to enjoy a drink, with all the country charm you could hope for."" Castle Inn The Castle Inn is a public house in West Lulworth, Dorset, England, which dates from the 16th century. It was originally called The Green Man, and later The Jolly Sailor. , the pub is a popular traditional pub and hotel. The Castle Inn has a focus upon traditional real ales, real ciders and great fresh food. The pub has changed names many times during its history. It has been known as both the Green"
"her. He also finds himself drawn into a fraudulent insurance scheme masterminded by Tigg Montague, and concocts a murderous plot in order to extricate himself from this. Meanwhile, Mr Chuffey, Anthony's senile clerk, goes into shock in the event of Anthony's sudden death and sleazy private nurse Sarah Gamp is hired to care for him. Martin Chuzzlewit (TV series) Martin Chuzzlewit is a 1994 TV serial produced by the BBC, based on the novel by Charles Dickens, with a screenplay by David Lodge and directed by Pedr James. The music was composed by Geoffrey Burgon. BBC2 originally broadcast the 85"
"travel along the Pacific Coast looking for a place to rest and enjoy a home-cooked meal. She hired Sumner P. Hunt to build a Craftsman Style bungalow inn on the site. It opened in September 1910, originally as ""The Wayside Inn"", later changed to ""The Pierpont Inn"" Josephine's son Austen Pierpont ran the Inn for the first many years, expanding it in 1925 by adding two English Tudor-style cottages surrounded by a lush, garden setting. He also developed the idea of turning the inn into a country club, but the idea never came to fruition. The inn changed hands several"
"induces Mr Mulliner to a recollection of a similar event introducing some new members of the very large Mulliner family. We then leave the pub to enter into the narrator’s world. We know that the popular landlord of the place is named Ernest Biggs (The Juice of an Orange), and that his very amiable barmaid is named Miss Postlethwaite. Even though she appears in most of the stories, she is never given a first name, but we do know that she is very fond of motion pictures, and of romance novelettes. Every Sunday afternoon, she retires to her room with"
"pressed into service as a book shop! A Buskin Shirley and a William Colley were the owner and Innkeeper from 1783. A ten shilling 'Licence for The Purveying of Liquor' was issued in 1830 to a John Morris, Proprietor and John Watkins, Owner. Sarah Ann Clark, the Landlady and wife of Philip Clark was murdered in 1880. Her ghost is said to haunt the inn; allegedly she is very friendly and only appears when there are young children staying at the inn. The Rhydspence continued into the 1950s as an Inn and farm when the land was sold off and"
"is the mean-spirited, sinisterly jovial son of Anthony Chuzzlewit. He views his father with contempt and wishes for his death so that he can have the business and the money for himself. It is suggested that he may have actually hastened the old man's death. He is a suitor of the two Miss Pecksniffs, wins one, then is driven to commit murder by his unscrupulous business associations. Mr and Mrs Spottletoe are the nephew-in-law and niece of Old Martin Chuzzlewit, Mrs Spottletoe being the daughter of Old Martin's brother. She was also once the favourite of Old Martin though they"
"the name of a woman, Sister E.M. Elvins. There is one pub restaurant The Huff Cap, formerly the Mother Huff Cap Inn, the name deriving from the days when most pubs brewed their own beer, Huff Cap being a 16th-century term for a strong ale which would ""huf ones cap"" or make the head swell, not for the froth on the top of the beer as is sometimes stated. The 'mother' is likely to be the dame who brewed the beer and managed the public house. In 1746 the pub is thought to have been 'The Huff Cap' and to"
"an inn, but does mark the inn at the position of the present day Blair Tavern; the 1925 OS marks the inn, but not the present day 'Blair Tavern'. The name Cleikum may be related to the 'Cleikum Inn' which features in Sir Walter Scott’s novel 'St Ronan’s Well', in which the 'Cleikum Club' met in the 'Cleikum Inn', so called from the sign-post showing the Saint catching the Devil. Meg Dods, landlady of the Cleikum Inn, is a formidable hostess, who runs a well organised hostelry with high standards of cleanliness and a distinct partiality regarding the social standing"
"markets in the old days were prone to stop and spend their money at the inns; it was so named by the farmers wives and eventually it was shorted to 'The Trap'. The inn at Lugton was called the 'Lug 'Em Inn', that at Auchentiber the 'Cleek 'Em Inn', and finally the one at Torranyard was called the 'Turn 'Em Out.' A Crossroads Inn is marked on John Thomson's map of 1828 and in 1858 it had two inns at the crossroads, the Burnhouse Inn and the Waggoners Inn, no longer shown on the 1911 OS. A Grain Store was"
"Julie's daughter. Sir Charles Napier Inn The Sir Charles Napier Inn (commonly known as the Sir Charles Napier or simply the Charles Napier) is a gastropub in Spriggs Alley about south of Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England. It was built in the early 19th century and is named (along with several other English pubs) after General Sir Charles James Napier (1782-1853). As of 2002 its proprietor for 35 years had been Julie Griffiths. Kaye Griffiths' family had been farmers in Chinnor for two generations. His father bought the pub, which abuts the family's land, in the 1960s for £4,000, and put Kaye's"
"them were Dyrham Park for the exterior of the house and the driveway, Powderham Castle (staircase, hall, music room, bedroom; used for the aqua-turquoise stairway scenes), Corsham Court (library and dining room) and Badminton House (servants' quarters, conservatory, entrance hall). Luciana Arrighi, the production designer, scouted most of these locations. Scenes were also shot in Weston-super-Mare, which stood in for Clevedon. The pub where Mr Stevens stays is the Hop Pole in Limpley Stoke; the shop featured is also in Limpley Stoke. The pub where Miss Kenton and Mr Benn meet is the George Inn, Norton St Philip. The character"
"a variety of proprietors as a hotel known as the ""Colonial Inn."" In 1950, it was purchased by Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Leonard and operated as a bed and breakfast. It had a distinguished clientele including Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, Sir William Hawthorne, Master of Churchill College, Cambridge, and actress Margaret Hamilton, best known as the Wicked Witch of the West in the film ""The Wizard of Oz"". In 1997, after a community fundraising effort, the house was purchased by the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society for use as their headquarters. The building currently houses the offices"
"with the appropriate name of The Angel. It remained The Angel Inn until 1965, an extraordinarily long existence for an inn, when it was returned to its former use as a shop. In 1720, when the landlord was John Roome, one of his customers stole two pewter plates and a flaxen napkin. She was caught and whipped at the cart's tail around the town. In 1804, Charles Heath was plainly impressed by the inn, since he wrote: ""The Angel Inn kept by Mrs Pugh, has long been a house of great respectability, and frequented by the mercantile travellers of the"
"in Helford. After her mother's death, Mary goes to live with her only surviving relative, her mother's sister, Patience Merlyn, in a coaching inn called Jamaica Inn. Patience's husband, Joss Merlyn, is a local bully, stands almost seven feet tall and is a drunk. On arriving at the gloomy and threatening inn, Mary finds her aunt in a ghost-like state under the thumb of the vicious Joss, and soon realises that something unusual is afoot at the inn, which has no guests and is never open to the public. She tries to squeeze the truth out of her uncle during"
"during this period. Some of the smugglers, their mistresses and other characters are reported to haunt the inn. The AA Rosette-winning restaurant serves British and French cuisine and features medieval artwork in the interior by the Slade School of Fine Art. It has been owned by Judith Blincow since 1993. The Mermaid Inn is located on Mermaid Street, which was once the town's main road. Mermaid street of present day, must have been the Middle street of 1670. Middle Street used to include the present Mermaid and Middle streets; in fact, the original Middle street was the present Mermaid street,"
"The Trout Inn The Trout Inn (often simply referred to as The Trout) is a historic public house in Lower Wolvercote north of Oxford, close to Godstow Bridge, directly by the River Thames. The pub features in Evelyn Waugh's novel ""Brideshead Revisited"" and in Colin Dexter's ""Inspector Morse"" series, which was written and filmed in and around Oxford. For example, it appears in the TV episode ""The Wolvercote Tongue"". An alternative reality version also appears in Philip Pullman's ""La Belle Sauvage"". It also appears in the 1997 film version of ""The Saint"". In 2001 the Trout Inn was visited by"
"Sun Inn The Sun Inn is a Grade II listed, parlour pub in Leintwardine, Herefordshire, England. It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. The 200+ year old establishment, one of the UK's last remaining parlour pubs, had been owned and operated by resident Flossie Lane, who was born in the Sun Inn in 1914, and took over ownership more than 70 years ago, until her death in June 2009 aged 94. Without anyone to take her place, there had been fears that it would be sold for redevelopment, but with the help of"
"author Roddy Martine and former MP Narindar Saroop. Puffin's Club Puffin's is a British luncheon club, founded in the 1960s by the historian Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk. The club was named after the founder's first wife, Diana Hay, 23rd Countess of Erroll, whose nickname was 'Puffin', and has primarily attracted Scots clan chiefs and European aristocrats. Originally, Puffin's met weekly on Tuesdays or Wednesdays in Edinburgh. It now assembles monthly on a Thursday, in both Edinburgh and London. Membership is, as in other gentlemen's clubs, strictly by invitation. Eligibility is that one's ancestors fought at the Battle of"
"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,"
"Ram Jam Inn The Ram Jam Inn was a pub on the A1 in Rutland, England between Stamford and Grantham. It was frequented by the highwayman Dick Turpin in the 18th century, and it is alleged that one of his confidence tricks inspired the pub's name. The pub originally opened as a coaching inn called the Winchelsea Arms, but became known as the Ram Jam Inn by the early 19th century. Turpin was a temporary lodger at the inn, and resided here when he first found notoriety. He showed his landlady, Mrs Spring, how to draw mild and bitter ale"
"at the Adelphi with John Buckstone, at the Olympic with Charles Mathews, and at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with William Charles Macready. In 1837 they visited America, but the venture was not a success and they returned to Great Britain in 1838 and joined the company of Lucia Elizabeth Vestris, acting with her until 1841. With his wife he managed the Lyceum Theatre from 1844 to 1847, putting on, among other productions, adaptations from the works of Charles Dickens; here he played the nurse Sarah Gamp in ""Martin Chuzzlewit"", for which role he was coached by Dickens himself, Trotty"
"The Flying Inn The Flying Inn is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1914. It is set in a future England where the Temperance movement has allowed a bizarre form of ""Progressive"" Islam to dominate the political and social life of the country. Because of this, alcohol sales to the poor are effectively prohibited, while the rich can get alcoholic drinks ""under a medical certificate"". The plot centres on the adventures of Humphrey Pumph (see also Humphrey Pump) and Captain Patrick Dalroy, who roam the country in their cart with a barrel of rum in an attempt"
"garden, described as a stunning blaze of red, white and blue blooms by all that have enjoyed it, helped secure the award. The Mug House The Mug House is a traditional public house located in the village of Claines, Worcestershire, England, which dates back to the 15th century. The Mug House pub is owned by Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries and offers several Banks's bitters along with one or two other guest ales which rotate every few weeks. The current landlady is Judy Allen, who has chosen to maintain a traditional atmosphere by not introducing games machines or music to the"