"He gets Nicholas a low-paying job as an assistant to Wackford Squeers, who runs the school Dotheboys Hall in Yorkshire. Nicholas is initially wary of Squeers (a very unpleasant man with one eye) because he is gruff and violent towards his young charges, but he tries to quell his suspicions. As Nicholas boards the stagecoach for Greta Bridge, he is handed a letter by Ralph's clerk, Newman Noggs. A once-wealthy businessman, Noggs lost his fortune, became a drunk, and had no other recourse but to seek employment with Ralph, whom he loathes. The letter expresses concern for him as an"
"The world premiere opened on 23 October 2012 at The Place theatre in Bedford, featuring Daniel Pothecary as the eponymous Nicholas Nickleby, Chris Lynch as Smike and Bill Prince as Mr Squeers. The music, lyrics and libretto were written by Tim Brewster and are available for both professional and amateur production. An early theatrical version actually appeared before publication of the serialised novel was finished, with the resolution of the stage play wildly different from the finished novel. Dickens' offence at this plagiarism prompted him to have Nicholas encounter a ""literary gentleman"" in chapter forty-eight of the novel. The gentleman"
"would be familiar to those with knowledge of the novel. Nicholas Nickleby and his mother and sister Kate arrive in London, and take up lodgings at Miss LaCreevy's (a miniature painter, per the sign on her house). Mrs. Nickleby sends a message to her brother-in-law Ralph Nickleby, a money-lender, asking his assistance in finding employment for Nicholas. Ralph visits the Nicklebys and shows Nicholas an advertisement to be a school teacher for Mr. Squeers' academy. Wackford Squeers is at the Saracen Head's Inn in London, allowing his new students nearly nothing to eat while he dines well. Ralph introduces Nicholas"
"which implied a connection between the demagoguery surrounding the Methodists and Pittites. The print enraged Bishop William Warburton, who although a vocal critic of Methodism, wrote: The 19th-century author Charles Dickens—whose childhood nursemaid Mary Weller may have affected him with a fascination for ghosts—made reference to the Cock Lane ghost in several of his books. One of ""Nicholas Nickleby""<nowiki>'s</nowiki> main characters and a source of much of the novel's comic relief, Mrs. Nickleby, claims that her great-grandfather ""went to school with the Cock-lane Ghost"" and that ""I know the master of his school was a Dissenter, and that would in"
"Hall rebel against the Squeers family and escape with the assistance of John Browdie. Nicholas becomes a partner in the Cheerybles' firm and marries Madeline. Kate and Frank Cheeryble also marry, as do Tim Linkinwater and Miss LaCreevy. Brooker dies penitent. Noggs recovers his respectability. The Nicklebys and their now extended family return to Devonshire, where they live in peace and contentment and grieve over Smike's grave. As in most of Dickens's works, there is a sprawling number of characters in the book. The major characters in ""Nicholas Nickleby"" include: While some consider the book to be among the finest"
"Sam Weller (character) Sam Weller is a fictional character in ""The Pickwick Papers"", the first novel by Charles Dickens, and is the character that made Dickens famous. Weller first appeared in the tenth serialised episode. Previously the monthly parts of the book had been doing badly—the humour of the character transformed the book into a publishing phenomenon. Weller's way of quoting people has led to the wellerism, often a type of proverb. In chapter 10 of the novel, the eponymous hero Mr. Pickwick meets Sam Weller working at the White Hart Inn in The Borough and soon takes him on"
"Charles Dickens' works. The eponymous club in ""The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club"", more commonly known as ""The Pickwick Papers"", is set in the street, as is Tellson's Bank In ""A Tale of Two Cities"". The poet John Davidson wrote two works in the late 19th century titled the ""Fleet Street Eclogues"". Arthur Ransome has a chapter in his Bohemia in London (1907) about earlier inhabitants of the street: Ben Jonson, the Doctor (Samuel Johnson), Coleridge, Hazlitt and Lamb; and about Temple Bar and the Press Club. Fleet Street is a square on the British Monopoly board, in a"
"with the spinster Rachael Wardle of Dingley Dell manor, misadventures with Dr Slammer, and others. Further humour is provided when the comic cockney Sam Weller makes his advent in chapter 10 of the novel. First seen working at the White Hart Inn in The Borough, Weller is taken on by Mr Pickwick as a personal servant and companion on his travels and provides his own oblique ongoing narrative on the proceedings. The relationship between the idealistic and unworldly Pickwick and the astute cockney Weller has been likened to that between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Through humor Dickens is able"
"closed in 2013. At Dotheboys Schoolhouse visitors experience a Victorian classroom. Touch-screens replace slates, and visitors take a quiz on Dickens' life and works. The haunted house was first advertised as Ebenezer Scrooge's house, but before the grand opening was renamed the Haunted House of 1859, possibly alluding to Dickens' Christmas story, ""A Haunted House,"" published that year. The house features a ""Pepper's ghost"" effect, which is part of the tour. The original company Dickens World Ltd placed itself in administration when unable to meet a £6 million tax bill, investors losing £32 million. Former director Ed De Lucy revealed"
"Lady on the Death of Her Husband,"" as well as Douglass's ""Narrative"" and Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin."" Each of these -- except for ""Bleak House"" -- appears in the 1882 catalog listing the books that her master owned (and Wheeler owned four other works by Dickens). Gregg Hecimovich of Winthrop University, who in 2013 documented the author as Hannah Bond, learned that girls from a nearby school often boarded at the Murfreesboro plantation where she worked as a lady's maid for Ellen Wheeler. Part of the girls' curriculum required them to read and memorize Dickens' ""Bleak"
"very close. Dickens's connection with Chapman & Hall began in 1836, when William Hall made to Dickens the suggestion which ultimately led to the publication of ""The Pickwick Papers"". The firm subsequently published ""Nicholas Nickleby"", ""Master Humphrey's Clock"", ""Barnaby Rudge"", ""The Old Curiosity Shop"", ""Martin Chuzzlewit"", and ""A Christmas Carol""; but in 1844 Dickens quarrelled with the firm, and entered into relations with Bradbury & Evans. In 1859, however, Dickens renewed his connection with Chapman & Hall, who issued the remainder of his books. In 1845 Chapman & Hall published the second edition of Thomas Carlyle's ""Life of Schiller"", and"
"in either of the universities of Oxford or Cambridge, and having been admitted advocates in pursuance of the rescript of the archbishop of Canterbury, were elected ""fellows"" in the manner prescribed by the charter. There were also attached to the college thirty-four ""proctors"", whose duties were analogous to those of solicitors. In the nineteenth century, the institution of Doctors' Commons and its members were looked upon as old-fashioned and slightly ridiculous. A satirical description of Doctors' Commons can be found in Charles Dickens's ""Sketches by Boz"" and also in his novel ""David Copperfield"" (in which Dickens called it a ""cosey,"
"Agnes Wickfield Agnes Wickfield is a character of ""David Copperfield"", a novel by Charles Dickens. She is a friend and confidante of David (the narrator and protagonist of this semi-autobiography) since his childhood and at the end of the novel, his second wife. In Dickens' language, she is the ""real heroine"" of the novel. Agnes Wickfield is introduced in chapter 15 of the novel; when David, with his great-aunt Betsey Trotwood, goes to her father Mr. Wickfield's house in Canterbury, in search of a good school. Agnes, whose mother is dead, takes care of her alcoholic yet affectionate father and"
"as a personal servant and companion on his travels. The relationship between the idealistic and unworldly Pickwick and the astute cockney Weller has been likened to that between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Sam Weller (character) Sam Weller is a fictional character in ""The Pickwick Papers"", the first novel by Charles Dickens, and is the character that made Dickens famous. Weller first appeared in the tenth serialised episode. Previously the monthly parts of the book had been doing badly—the humour of the character transformed the book into a publishing phenomenon. Weller's way of quoting people has led to the wellerism,"
"of a young man named Nicholas Nickleby, who is sent by his uncle to teach in a school run by a cruel and vicious headmaster by the name of Squeers. The children notice that they are in a similar situation, and ask why they should listen to Nicholls, as nobody ever listens to them. (""Here I Am""). The Headmaster and Miss Grant overhear the commotion, and Nicholls explains that he was getting the children interested by turning Nicholas Nickleby into a musical. The Headmaster and Miss Grant are not convinced, but Nicholls explains the character of Squeers to the Headmaster,"
"The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers by John Dickson Carr is a Sherlock Holmes story. The story was published in the 1954 collection, ""The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes"", a joint enterprise of Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. While waiting up late one night, Holmes and Watson are visited by the night watchman of a famous waxworks and his grand–daughter. The watchman has noticed that the playing cards in the hand of a wax figure in a Chamber of Horrors exhibit have changed. Holmes becomes immediately interested in this mystery and sends Watson"
"of the Bull Inn, where the Pickwickians take a coach to Ipswich. En route, driving along Whitechapel Road, Sam Weller opines that it is ""not a wery nice neighbourhood"" and notes the correlation between poverty and the abundance of oyster stalls here. One of Fagin's dens in Dickens's ""Oliver Twist"" was located in Whitechapel and Fagin, himself, was possibly based on a notorious local 'fence' named Ikey Solomon (1785–1850). Whitechapel is also the setting of several novels by Jewish authors such as ""Children of the Ghetto"" and ""The King of Schnorrers"" by Israel Zangwill and ""Jew Boy"" by Simon Blumenfeld."
"any of ""you dogs"" and exterminate them. This scene foreshadows the oncoming revolution in France. The Marquis St. Evrémonde appears in the two following chapters ""Monseigneur in the Country"" (when he is told by a road worker that a dust-covered figure was hanging on to the bottom of his carriage) and ""the ""Gorgon's Head"" (dining with his nephew, Charles Darnay). Dickens uses his account of the journey of the indifferent Marquis through the countryside surrounding his chateau to graphically describe the poverty and desperation of the peasantry. During the dinner between uncle and nephew, Charles Darnay apologizes for being detained"
"One of the 38 authors featured in the book was Charles Dickens, and he was not amused by what Powell had written. One item that seemed to have annoyed him was the assertion that he had based the character of Paul Dombey (""Dombey and Son"") on Thomas Chapman, one of the principal partners at John Chapman & Co. Dickens immediately fired off a letter to Lewis Gaylord Clark, editor of the New York literary magazine ""The Knickerbocker"", saying that Powell was a forger and thief. Clark published the letter in the ""New-York Tribune"" and several other papers picked up on"
"the hours and quarters, and turn their heads. There are numerous literary references to the clock, including in Thomas Hughes' ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"", Oliver Goldsmith’s ""The Vicar of Wakefield"", both ""David Copperfield"" and ""Barnaby Rudge"" by Charles Dickens, The Warden by Anthony Trollope, the penny dreadful serial ""The String of Pearls"" in which the character Sweeney Todd first appears, David Lyddal's ""The Prompter"" (1810) and a poem by William Cowper. In 1828, when the medieval church was demolished, the clock was removed by art collector Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford to his mansion in Regent's Park; during World War"
"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"
"The Politeness of Princes ""The Politeness of Princes"" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United Kingdom in the July 1902 issue of ""The Captain"". It is a school story, set at Wrykyn school. The story later appeared in the United States in the collection ""The Swoop! and Other Stories"" (1979), and was the title story of the Project Gutenberg eBook ""The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories"". The title comes from the saying, ""Punctuality is the politeness of princes."" Chapple, a boy in Seymour's house, has trouble dragging himself out of bed"
"his mother, and his younger sister, Kate, venture to London to seek help from their wealthy, cold-hearted uncle Ralph, an investor who arranges for Nicholas to be hired as a tutor at Dotheboys Hall in Yorkshire and finds Kate work as a seamstress. Nicholas is horrified to discover his employers, the sadistic Mr and Mrs Squeers, run their boarding school like a prison and physically, verbally, and emotionally abuse their young charges on a regular basis. He eventually rebels and escapes, taking with him the crippled young servant boy Smike. As they journey to London, they stumble upon a theatrical"
"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"
"Charles Dickens, he also worked to preserve the heritage of the George and Vulture in the City of London, which was frequently mentioned in ""The Pickwick Papers"", where Charles Dickens himself often drank, and which was threatened with demolition; and Gads Hill Place in Kent, Dicken's final home, becoming a governor of Gad's Hill School, which occupies the building today. In 2005 he appeared in the first episode of BBC Four's documentary series ""Dickens in America"" with Miriam Margolyes, during which he talked about what it was like growing up as a member of the Dickens family. Dickens suffered a"
"them for possible future publication. Also, after his capture, Oldacre reveals that he also believed Holmes to be dead. The Wishbone Mysteries novel ""Forgotten Heroes"" references the Adventure of the Norwood Builder. The Adventure of the Norwood Builder ""The Adventure of the Norwood Builder"", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the second tale from ""The Return of Sherlock Holmes"". The story was first published in ""The Strand Magazine"" in 1903 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are visited by ""the unhappy John Hector McFarlane"","
"local squire Thomas Lucy, and that he then wrote a scurrilous ballad about Lucy. It is also reported, according to a note added by Samuel Johnson to the 1765 edition of ""Rowe's Life"", that Shakespeare minded the horses for theatre patrons in London. Johnson adds that the story had been told to Alexander Pope by Rowe. In his ""Brief Lives"", written 1669–96, John Aubrey reported that Shakespeare had been a ""schoolmaster in the country"" on the authority of William Beeston, son of Christopher Beeston, who had acted with Shakespeare in ""Every Man in His Humour"" (1598) as a fellow member"
"Wilkins Micawber Wilkins Micawber is a clerk in Charles Dickens's 1850 novel ""David Copperfield"". He is traditionally identified with the optimistic belief that ""something will turn up."" Micawber was incarcerated in debtors' prison (the King's Bench Prison) after failing to meet his creditors' demands. His long-suffering wife, Emma, stands by him despite his financial exigencies that force her to pawn all of her family's heirlooms. She lives by the maxims, ""I will never desert Mr. Micawber!"" and ""Experientia does it!"" (from ""Experientia docet"", ""One learns by experience."") Micawber is hired as a clerk by the scheming Uriah Heep, who assumes"
"a skinny boy who works as a slave to the Squeers family. He treats Smike poorly before asking him to fetch the luggage. Squeers then introduces Nicholas to his wife, Mrs. Squeers, who helps him run the school. She immediately takes a disliking to Nicholas. Nicholas is then introduced to the Squeers' children, Fanny and Wackford. Squeers tries to show that his family is perfect, but Nicholas knows they are far from it (""Wackford, Fanny, Squeersy And Me""). Squeers then introduces Nicholas to the boys, who look more like sewer rats than human beings. He states that Mrs. Squeers is"
"good character and 'the respect of the neighborhood,' there is not a living to be got out of the broom."" The occupation of crossing sweeper received perhaps its most famous literary treatment in Charles Dickens' novel ""Bleak House"" with the character of Jo, a homeless boy who ""fights it out at his crossing among the mud and wheels, the horses, whips, and umbrellas, and gets but a scanty sum..."" Jo has been characterized as ""one of the most significant figures"" in the novel and as a way for Dickens to address juvenile vagrancy, which was seen as a serious social"
"their eight children, was born in 1812. As a young boy he was taught to read by his mother, and later also a little Latin, awakening, as Charles later told his friend and biographer John Forster ""his first desire for knowledge and his earliest passion for reading"". According to Mary Weller, the Dickenses' servant when they were living in Chatham, Elizabeth Dickens was ""a dear, good mother and a fine woman"". By 1812 her husband had fallen heavily into debt and Elizabeth, like Mrs Micawber in ""David Copperfield"", tried to help his financial situation by setting up a school called"
"aimlessly. Holmes clapped his hand to his brow and, throwing open the other window, he shouted an order to the cabby. </poem> This apocryphal story was inspired by the mention in ""The Adventure of Black Peter"" of Holmes's ""arrest of Wilson, the notorious canary-trainer, which removed a plague-spot from the East-End of London."" In this story, Wilson is not arrested, but this discrepancy is explained as an error due to Dr Watson. The Adventure of the Deptford Horror The Adventure of the Deptford Horror is a Sherlock Holmes story by Adrian Conan Doyle. The story was published in the 1954"
"John Dickens John Dickens (21 August 1785 – 31 March 1851) was the father of English novelist Charles Dickens and was the model for Mr Micawber in his son's semi-autobiographical novel ""David Copperfield"". The son of William Dickens (1719–1785) and Elizabeth Ball (1745–1824), John Dickens was a clerk in the Royal Navy Pay Office at Portsmouth in Hampshire. On 13 June 1809 at St Mary le Strand, London, he married Elizabeth Barrow, with whom he had eight children. He was later transferred to London and then to Chatham, returning to live in Camden Town in London in 1822 to work"