"Edward Murdstone Edward Murdstone (commonly known as Mr. Murdstone) is a fictional character and one of the primary antagonists in the first part of the Charles Dickens novel ""David Copperfield"". Near the beginning of the novel, Murdstone marries Clara Copperfield when David is about eight years old (David's father died six months before David was born). This arrangement is done secretly (much to Peggotty's disapproval), while David is away at the Yarmouth seashore. Soon after the marriage and David's return home, Murdstone's sister Jane moves into the house at Blunderstone with them. However, the Murdstones begin to show a much"
"by Creakle that his mother and half-brother have died, and he returns home for the funeral. Peggotty is fired, but becomes engaged to a family friend, Mr. Barkis. With the Murdstones now in full control of the Rookery and David's future, Murdstone takes David out of Salem House and sends him to work in his factory in London. Murdstone also arranges for David to live with his friend, Wilkins Micawber, who treats David like his own son, but he is sent to a debtors' prison shortly afterwards. When he is released, he and his family are forced to move to"
"to Charles Dickens' Mr. Pickwick and company. In chapter four of ""Cordelia Underwood"", Cordelia finds a copy of ""The Pickwick Papers"" in her uncle's trunk. Author Van Reid says that the names of the characters Ephram, Eagleton and Thump were chosen to evoke the sound of a heavy object falling downstairs. The name Tobias was consciously borrowed from the character of Uncle Toby in Laurence Sterne’s ""The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman""; Walton from Izaak Walton, author of ""The Compleat Angler"". Ephram, Eagleton, and Thump adhere to different political parties, go to separate churches, subscribe to different newspapers,"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"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,"
"Trusted Like the Fox Trusted Like the Fox is a 1948 thriller novel by British author James Hadley Chase. The novel is also alternately titled ""Ruthless"". The story is set in the World War II era, when Edwin Cushmann, political double crosser, changes his identity to David Ellis to escape the Allied Forces. He eventually meets a deaf girl named Grace Clark, who is trying hard to survive, whom he uses for protection, and both run to London, where Cushmann fractures his leg, and is left at the mercy of Grace, who cares for him like her own. Soon both"
"consider Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first book, the even earlier ""The Trail of the Serpent"" (1861), the first British detective novel. The novel ""features an unusual and innovative detective figure, Mr. Peters, who is lower class and mute, and who is initially dismissed both by the text and its characters."" Braddon's later and better-remembered work, ""Aurora Floyd"" (printed in 1863 novel form, but serialized in 1862-63), also features a compelling detective in the person of Detective Grimstone of Scotland Yard. Tom Taylor's melodrama ""The Ticket-of-Leave Man"", an adaptation of ""Léonard"" by Édouard Brisbarre and Eugène Nus, appeared in 1863, introducing Hawkshaw"
"onlie begetter of these sonnets, Mr G S K"". The central character is Cyril ""Barmy"" Fotheringay-Phipps (pronounced ""Fungy Fips""), an amiable if not particularly brilliant young man who courts Eileen ""Dinty"" Moore. Barmy in Wonderland Barmy in Wonderland is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 21 April 1952 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on May 8, 1952 by Doubleday & Company, New York, under the title ""Angel Cake"". The novel may be considered part of the expanded Drones Club canon, since the main character Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps is a member"
"Sigma Force novel, ""The Doomsday Key"" (2009) refers to Bardsey and its mythology. Crime writer Mark Billingham set his 2014 novel, The Bones Beneath, on Bardsey. He includes notes on the island at the end of the book, which is one in his series of Tom Thorne novels. Passenger ferry services to Bardsey Island are operated from Porth Meudwy and Pwllheli by ""Bardsey Boat Trips"" and ""Enlli Charters"". At times, the wind and the fierce sea currents make sailing between the island and the mainland impossible. Sometimes boats are unable to reach or leave Bardsey Island for many days; in"
"Deb McAndrew and directed by Conrad Nelson. The novel has also been adapted twice as a mini-series for British television, once in 1977 with Patrick Allen as Gradgrind, Timothy West as Bounderby, Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Sparsit and Edward Fox as Harthouse, and again in 1994 with Bob Peck as Gradgrind, Alan Bates as Bounderby, Dilys Laye as Mrs. Sparsit, Bill Paterson as Stephen, Harriet Walter as Rachael and Richard E. Grant as Harthouse. Hard Times (novel) Hard Times – For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The"
"for a series of 29 novels by Angela Thirkell, written from 1930 to 1961. Thirkell's stories blend social satire with romance. Her 1946 novel, ""Private Enterprise"", explored discontent with the bureaucracy of the Attlee government – something echoed by Orville Prescott in his poem-review beginning ""In Barchester all is not well"". Barsetshire is also used in some of the Pullein-Thompson sisters books, usually referring to rival teams or as a nearby county. Barchester and Barset were used as names for the fictional county in which St Trinians School was supposedly located in the original films. The county is also mentioned"
"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"
"Tim Willcox (Spanish) and Nina Hossain (English Language and Linguistics). Noted writers include Edward Bradley author of ""The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green"", Minette Walters (French, 1971), author of ""The Sculptress"" and ""The Scold's Bridle"", Graham Hancock (Sociology, 1973) author of ""The Sign and the Seal"", Tim FitzHigham, comedian and author, James Kirkup, travel writer, poet and playwright, Patrick Tilley, science fiction author, and Lorna Hill (born Lorna Leatham, English, 1926), children's writer, author of the Sadlers Wells series. In the sports realm, former England rugby captains Will Carling (Psychology), Phil de Glanville (Economics), and vice-captain Will Greenwood (Economics, 1994),"
"comes to pay him a visit, revealing a long-kept family secret. Tony departs for London with the resourceful Polly Brown, leaving the ancestral home in the hands of the Socialist barber Syd Price. The Honourable Freddie Chalk-Marshall, the monocle-wearing younger brother of Lord Droitwich, is a member of the Drones Club. If I Were You (Wodehouse novel) If I Were You is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on September 3, 1931 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom on September 25, 1931 by Herbert Jenkins, London. Prior to its publication in"
"It is very like his own autobiography, with his retrospection of English politics woven into the thread of a story. The action and conversations are distributed between characters who have figured in English politics or the fashionable romance of Europe during the last forty years. St Barbe, the journalist in "" Endymion "" is supposed to be an intended caricature of Thackeray, which is exciting the indignation of the admirers of the great satirist, and Gushy is taken to be Dickens. Vigo, another personage of the novel, is a combination of Poole, the tailor, and of George Hudson, the Sunderland"
"his servants, Tara, an Irish immigrant who is literate and able to provide advice. While writing his book, Charles is greeted by the arrival of his father, John Dickens (Jonathan Pryce), whom Charles views as immature and fiscally irresponsible. Charles' relationship with his family is increasingly strained as he struggles to finish the book in time, as he is unable to resolve Scrooge's story. Hearing that Charles intends to let Tiny Tim die, Tara suggests a resolution for Scrooge by having him save Tiny Tim instead. Charles rejects her help, and soon sends her away from his house in a"
"as well. ""The Hum and the Shiver"" by Alex Bledsoe includes references to a lost version of the painting. The painting and the artist are also referenced in Elizabeth Hand's novel ""Mortal Love"". The British fantasy writer Angela Carter wrote ""Come unto these Yellow Sands"", a radio-play based on Dadd's life. The full name of the eccentric character Mr Dick in ""David Copperfield"" by Charles Dickens is Richard Babley, which echoes the name of Dickens' contemporary Richard Dadd. Canadian author R.J. Anderson acknowledges Dadd as the basis of her fictional painter Alfred Wrenfield, who figures prominently in her young adult"
"Mrs. Rouncewell, Jerome Willis as Mr. Woodcourt, Michael Aldridge as Mr. George, Nora Nicholson as Miss Flite, Annette Carell as Mlle. Hortense, and Angela Crow as Charley. The complete series still exists. Bleak House (1959 TV serial) Bleak House (1959) is the first BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. It was adapted by Constance Cox as an eleven-part series of half-hour episodes first transmitted from 16 October 1959. It stars Andrew Cruickshank in the role of John Jarndyce, Diana Fairfax as Esther Summerson, Colin Jeavons as Richard Carstone, Elizabeth Shepherd as Ada Clare, Iris Russell"
"One of the major hit songs of the Edwardian musical play The Arcadians (1909) which enjoyed long runs in the West End of London and on New York's Broadway is ""All down Piccadilly"" (Simplicitas and Chorus, Act III, revised version), with music by Lionel Monckton who also co-wrote the words with Arthur Wimperis. Piccadilly is mentioned in several works of fiction. E. W. Hornung's ""gentleman thief"" Raffles lives at the Albany, as does Jack Worthing from Oscar Wilde's ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". According to author Mary C King, Wilde chose the street because of its resemblance to the Spanish"
"Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), author of the epistolary novels ""Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded"" (1740) and ""Clarissa"" (1747–48); Henry Fielding (1707–1754), who wrote ""Joseph Andrews"" (1742) and ""The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"" (1749); Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), who published ""Tristram Shandy"" in parts between 1759 and 1767; Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), author of ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766); Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as ""The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle"" (1751) and ""The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"" (1771), who influenced Charles Dickens; and Fanny Burney (1752–1840), whose novels ""were enjoyed and admired by Jane"
"great-aunt Miss Betsey Trotwood. In her kind motherliness, Peggotty contrasts markedly with the harsh and unloving Miss Murdstone, the sister of David's cruel stepfather Mr Murdstone. She marries carrier Mr Barkis and is afterwards sometimes referred to as Mrs. Barkis, a name Aunt Betsey Trotwood regards as much more suitable. On her husband's death Peggotty inherits £3,000 — equivalent to about £ in present-day terms. After his death, she becomes Betsy Trotwood's servant and companion. Peggotty has been played by Judy Cornwell (2000), Pauline Quirke (1999), Jenny McCracken (1986), Lila Kaye (1966), Elsa Vazzoler (1965), Barbara Ogilvie (1958), Jessie Ralph"
"in the book. The Red Queen is Joseph Chamberlain and Crumpty-Bumpty is Henry Campbell-Bannerman. There are additional characters, such as the Lion and the Unicorn, representing Britain and Germany respectively. The book features 50 drawings after the originals by John Tenniel which were drawn by journalist J. Stafford Ransome, credited as ""S.R."". Lost in Blunderland Lost in Blunderland: The further adventures of Clara is a novel by Caroline Lewis (pseudonym for Edward Harold Begbie, J. Stafford Ransome, and M. H. Temple), written in 1903 and published by William Heinemann of London. It is a political parody of Lewis Carroll's two"
"The Freedom Trap The Freedom Trap is a novel written by English author Desmond Bagley, and was first published in 1971 with a cover by Norman Weaver. It was loosely based on the escape of George Blake from prison five years before. In 1973 it was made into a film entitled ""The Mackintosh Man"", starring Paul Newman. Joseph Rearden is a better-than-average crook from South Africa with a jail conviction on his record. In London, he meets an agent of the British Government called Mackintosh, who recruits him for a new and deadly assignment - to snare The Scarperers (a"
"Bleak House Bleak House is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and the story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of ""Bleak House"" is a long-running legal case, ""Jarndyce and Jarndyce"", which came about because someone wrote several conflicting wills. Dickens uses this case to satirise the English judicial system. Though the legal profession criticised Dickens' satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement, which"
"One of the Family One of the Family (1993) was the last novel written by Monica Dickens, great granddaughter of Charles Dickens. It is set in Edwardian London where the world, like main character Leonard Morley's life, is changing. We start the book with a single note which seems to leave a smudge on Leonard and his family life. The book continues with himself, two sons, a daughter and a wife as well as a large extended family all making room for one more, when curiously charming 'Doctor' Tobias Taylor appears on the scene. However curiosity killed more than just"
"at times he gives a distinct impression of the islands of the Pacific in a few crisp sentences."" In Strange Company In Strange Company : a story of Chili and the southern seas (1894) is a novel by Australian writer Guy Boothby. Marmaduke Plowden has embezzled 200 thousand pounds from his clients in London and fled the country for Chili. A number of unsavoury characters learn about the theft and set plans in motion to retrieve the money for themselves. A reviewer in ""The Telegraph"" (Brisbane) praised the book for being a good example of its type: ""This book will"
"In Strange Company In Strange Company : a story of Chili and the southern seas (1894) is a novel by Australian writer Guy Boothby. Marmaduke Plowden has embezzled 200 thousand pounds from his clients in London and fled the country for Chili. A number of unsavoury characters learn about the theft and set plans in motion to retrieve the money for themselves. A reviewer in ""The Telegraph"" (Brisbane) praised the book for being a good example of its type: ""This book will be very welcome to all those who love a straightforward tale without great intricacy of plot, subtle delineation"
"who directly associates with it suffers some tragic fate. Miss Flite has long since lost her mind when the narrative begins. Richard Carstone, a former ward of court, dies trying to win the inheritance for himself after spending much of his life so distracted by the notion of it that he cannot commit to any other pursuit. John Jarndyce, by contrast, finds the whole process tiresome and tries to have as little to do with it as he possibly can, one of many examples of the character's wise and self-effacing demeanour. Dickens introduces the case in the in terms which"
"Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon (Tommy Hambledon) is the fictional protagonist of many spy novels written by the British author ""Manning Coles"" (actually the two-person writing team of Adelaide Frances Oke Manning and Cyril Henry Coles) from 1940 through 1963. He works for a department of the Foreign Office, usually referred to in the novels as ""MI5"" (counter-intelligence), although in the earliest books he is clearly working for the active overseas department MI6, the British equivalent of the OSS/CIA. Tommy was a teacher in a British boarding school in his first appearance in ""Drink to Yesterday"" and, during school"
"Brimstone. As soon as Piggy finds out about the murder in the newspaper, a decision's made that means a trip to the country, and there's a second murder during an unusual gathering. Also featuring are secretary Miss Whizzer and the rest of the Brimstone family, through which the detectives narrow down the culprit. Piggy and Charley's second serial begins when a frogman delivers a note, and the duo are sent in search of the formula for the Clumsy Drug, alongside Cyd Hayman as Madame Eloise Coqoutte. Corbett and Barker also play the two villains, the notorious Mr Greensleeves and his"
"several handbooks for youth club leaders. He contributed articles, short stories and serials to the Boy's Own Paper, Chums, Scout, the Girl's Own Paper and St. Nicholas Magazine. His fiction includes ""Tol the Swimmer"", ""The Weir Boyd Mystery"", ""Boys of Pendlecliffe School"", ""The Pendlecliffe Swimmers"" and ""Tom Thumb Tales with Morals if You Want Them"". He was a Christian and wrote ""Is There Anybody There? The Voices of God"" (1971). He also compiled ""Down to Earth and up to Heaven: Prayers for the Youthful"" (1964). Sid G. Hedges Sidney George Hedges (25 March 1897 – 1974) was a British author"