In which Dickens novel do 'Bitzer', 'Sleary', and 'James Harthouse' appear?
"a factory worker, childhood friend of Blackpool's drunken and often absent wife, and becomes the literary tool for bringing the two parallel story lines together at the brink of Hell's Shaft in the final book. Mrs. Sparsit – is a widow who has fallen on hard times. She is employed by Bounderby, and is jealous when he marries Louisa, delighting in the belief that Louisa is later about to elope with James Harthouse. Her machinations are unsuccessful and she is ultimately sacked by Bounderby. James Harthouse – is an indolent, languid, upper-class gentleman, who attempts to woo Louisa. Mrs. Gradgrind"
"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"
"wrote a popular guidebook to London called ""Dickens's Dictionary of London"" in 1879. Dickens' first novel The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as ""The Pickwick Papers"") follows the travels of the club's members around England, and, between them, they stay in over one hundred Inns during their journeys. A selection of those in the London area, including the George and Vulture in Lombard Street and the ""Golden Cross"" at Charing Cross, were the subject of Bertram Waldrom Matz's 1921 book ""The inns & taverns of ""Pickwick"", with some observations on their other associations"", and still feature on"
"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"
"sail on his third voyage to the New World. In 1661, Samuel Pepys’ diary records his trip to lime kilns at the jetty just along from The Grapes. In 1820, the young Charles Dickens visited his godfather in Limehouse and knew the district well for 40 years. The Grapes appears, scarcely disguised, in the opening chapter of his novel ""Our Mutual Friend"": """"A tavern of dropsical appearance... long settled down into a state of hale infirmity. It had outlasted many a sprucer public house, indeed the whole house impended over the water but seemed to have got into the condition"
"the house. The success of ""Sketches by Boz"" led to a proposal from publishers Chapman and Hall for Dickens to supply text to match Robert Seymour's engraved illustrations in a monthly letterpress. Seymour committed suicide after the second instalment, and Dickens, who wanted to write a connected series of sketches, hired ""Phiz"" to provide the engravings (which were reduced from four to two per instalment) for the story. The resulting story became ""The Pickwick Papers"", and though the first few episodes were not successful, the introduction of the Cockney character Sam Weller in the fourth episode (the first to be"
"consists of short stories, each focusing on a particular character in the village. This was followed by two other series, ""Nicholas and Mary and Other Milton Folk"" (1899) and ""Natives of Milton"" (1902). Eyam was also featured under its own name in Joseph Hatton's novel, ""The Dagger and the Cross"" (1897). Set in the former Bradshaw Hall in the year before the plague arrives, it includes local characters who had key roles during the spread of the disease, such as George Vicars and William and Catherine Mompesson. The village lends its name to the evolutionary ""Eyam Hypothesis"" whereby infected individuals"
"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"
"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"
"For example, in his novel ""Bleak House"" Dickens mocks Mrs. Jellyby, who neglects her children for the natives of a fictional African country. The disjunction between Dickens' criticism of slavery and his crude caricatures of other races has also been noted by Patrick Brantlinger in his ""A Companion to the Victorian Novel"". He cites Dickens' description of an Irish colony in America's Catskill mountains a mess of pigs, pots, and dunghills. Dickens views them as a ""racially repellent"" group. Jane Smiley writing in the Penguin Lives bio of Dickens writes ""we should not interpret him as the kind of left-liberal"
"office with specimens of their work for Dickens's inspection. The novelist preferred Browne. Browne's first two etched plates for Pickwick were signed ""Nemo"", but the third was signed ""Phiz"", a pseudonym which was retained in future. When asked to explain why he chose this name he answered that the change from ""Nemo"" to ""Phiz"" was made to harmonize better with Dickens's ""Boz"". Phiz developed the character Sam Weller graphically just as Seymour had developed Pickwick. Dickens and Phiz became good friends and in 1838 travelled together to Yorkshire to see the schools of which Nicholas Nickleby became the hero: afterwards"
"is so far from the location of the fictional house. The house is on top of the cliff on Fort Road, and was renamed Bleak House after his death, in his honour. It is the only four storey grade II listed mansion in Broadstairs. Dickens locates the fictional Bleak House in St Albans, Hertfordshire, where he wrote some of the book. An 18th-century house in Folly Lane, St Albans, has been identified as a possible inspiration for the titular house in the story since the time of the book's publication and was known as Bleak House for many years. In"
"fiction taking place circa 1600. It became one of the many famous coaching inns in the days of Charles Dickens, and it was here that Sam Weller met Mr. Pickwick in the famous scene from ""The Pickwick Papers"", chapter 10. The Inn was pulled down in the 19th century. It was next door to The George Inn and near the site of The Tabard. Also in Southwark, but approximately 0.5 km to the west, the White Hart at 22 Great Suffolk Street was built in 1882. It survived redevelopment of the surrounding area and is now the only Victorian public"
"that he is on a quest 'to feast on turtle soup and venison, served with a golden spoon.' All ""superintendents"" of the novel are undone in one way or another. Dickens portrays the wealthy in this novel as being morally corrupt. Bounderby has no moral scruples, and, for example, fires Blackpool ""for a novelty"". He also conducts himself without any shred of decency, frequently losing his temper. He is cynically false about his childhood. Harthouse, a leisured gent, is compared to an ""iceberg"" who will cause a wreck unwittingly, due to him being ""not a moral sort of fellow"", as"
"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,"
"fictitious. Several P.G. Wodehouse novels use the setting of Piccadilly as the playground of the rich, idle bachelor in the inter-war period of the 20th century. Notable instances are present in the characters of Bertie Wooster and his Drones Club companions in the Jeeves stories, and the character of James Crocker in the story ""Piccadilly Jim"". Dorothy Sayers' fictional detective Lord Peter Wimsey is described as living at 110A Piccadilly in the inter-war period. The street is a square on the British Monopoly board, forming a set with Leicester Square and Coventry Street. When a European Union version of the"
"have told Dickens about Donnithorne. Chisholm's descriptions of life in New South Wales were published in Dickens' ""Household Words"", and the character of Mrs Jellyby in Dickens' ""Bleak House"" was likely based in part on Chisholm. Chisholm would have had opportunity to hear about Donnithorne: she ran a school for girls in Newtown, near Donnithorne's home; Chisholm and her husband were part of the same small Sydney philanthropic circle as Donnithorne's father; and Chisholm and Eliza Donnithorne were at one point treated by the same Sydney doctor. Some versions of the story speculate that Dickens' sons, two of whom spent"
"scenes in ""The Pickwick Papers"" are claimed to have been influential in having the Fleet Prison shut down. Karl Marx asserted that Dickens ""issued to the world more political and social truths than have been uttered by all the professional politicians, publicists and moralists put together"". George Bernard Shaw even remarked that ""Great Expectations"" was more seditious than Marx's ""Das Kapital"". The exceptional popularity of Dickens's novels, even those with socially oppositional themes (""Bleak House"", 1853; ""Little Dorrit"", 1857; ""Our Mutual Friend"", 1865), not only underscored his almost preternatural ability to create compelling storylines and unforgettable characters, but also ensured"
"in which it is situated. Charles Dickens spent summer holidays at Fort House in the 1850s and 1860s and it was there in that ""airy nest"" above the harbour that he wrote ""David Copperfield"". Fort House was dubbed Bleak House in the early part of the 20th century. Somebody asserted that it was the Bleak House referred to in Dickens' 1853 novel, and the name stuck. There has been much dispute over the truth of the claim. Some people believe that the house from which Dickens took his inspiration is far distant from Broadstairs. What can be certain is that"
"in 2018, as a two-part drama starring Martin Jarvis as Jeeves and James Callis as Bertie Wooster. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, published in the United States on 22 March 1963 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, and in the United Kingdom on 16 August 1963 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It is the ninth of eleven novels featuring Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. Chronicling Bertie Wooster's return to Sir Watkyn Bassett's home, Totleigh Towers, the story involves a black amber statuette, an Alpine hat, and a dispute between"
"play suppressed. This play was the root of the argument in which Jonson killed Gabriel Spencer in 1598, at Hoxton fields. ""Eastward Hoe"" (1605) was equally scandalous, and resulted in the arrest of the playwrights. Charles Dickens (1812–70), throughout his work, draws extensively on his experiences of poverty in London. 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 in Whitechapel, features in his ""Pickwick Papers"". On leaving it Sam Weller makes"
"writings and characters of Charles Dickens. Newham notes in his diary that he lived and worked for Benthall for a period at Cecil Street, the Strand. Coincidentally, Dickens also lived in Cecil Street at that time. It was 12 years later that the diarist, through connections of his step-father, secured a position as clerk at Maidstone Gaol, which in turn led to Newham becoming Assistant Governor of Maidstone, and Governor of St Augustine's Prison, Canterbury, in 1878. Between 1857 and 1876, Newham oversaw the hanging of 24 inmates (all of them murderers) including that of Frances Kidder in 1868. Kidder"
"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."
"Hatfield. It has more than 23,000 students. Hertfordshire is the location of Jack Worthing's country house in Oscar Wilde's play ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". Jane Austen's novel ""Pride and Prejudice"" is primarily set in Hertfordshire. The location of Mr Jarndyce's Bleak House in Charles Dickens's ""Bleak House"" is near St Albans. The eponymous residence in E. M. Forster's novel ""Howards End"" was based on Rooks Nest House just outside Stevenage. George Orwell based ""Animal Farm"" on Wallington, Hertfordshire where he lived between 1936 and 1940. Manor Farm and The Great Barn both feature in the novel. Hertfordshire Hertfordshire (;"
"fleeing their home for purposes of safety (as in response to political oppression or natural disaster), is typically considered not a waif but a refugee. Orphaned children, left to fend for themselves, are common as literary protagonists, especially in children's and fantasy literature. The characters Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel ""Wuthering Heights"" and Jo, the crossing sweeper in Charles Dickens' 1852 novel ""Bleak House"" are waifs. Dickens, it may be noted, has been called ""the Master of Waif Literature."" Bret Harte's 1890 novel ""A Waif of the Plains"", set against the backdrop of the Oregon Trail in the 1850s,"
"them in the background. Models of the ""fearfully great bird"" ""Dinornis"" of New Zealand (extinct by 1500 AD), and of the extinct elephant-like ""Mastodon"" (""Deinotherium"") of the Miocene and Pliocene of America, were planned for the 'Tertiary Islands' but not completed. Charles Dickens's 1853 novel, ""Bleak House"", begins with a description of muddy streets, whose primordial character is emphasized by the first-ever mention of any dinosaur in a popular work: In H. G. Wells's 1905 novel ""Kipps"", Kipps and Ann visit Crystal Palace and sit ""in the presence of the green and gold Labyrinthodon that looms so splendidly above the"
"the ""Barsetshire"" novels of Anthony Trollope, who attended Winchester College; ""The Warden"" (1855) is said to be based on a scandal at the Hospital of St Cross. A fictionalised Winchester appears as ""Wintoncester"" in Hardy's ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"" (1891). Some of the action in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's ""The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"" (1892) takes place in the city—the Black Swan hotel mentioned in the story formerly stood at the end of Southgate St and is still acknowledged by a figure on the outside of the building. In Charles Kingsley's romantic history ""Hereward the Wake"" (1866), Hereward smashes"
"Ishmael"" (1971), a far-future sequel to Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick""; ""The Other Log of Phileas Fogg"" (1973), which fills in the missing time periods from Jules Verne's ""Around the World in Eighty Days""; and ""A Barnstormer in Oz"" (1982), in which Dorothy's adult son, a pilot, flies to the Land of Oz by accident. He has often written about the pulp heroes Tarzan and Doc Savage, or pastiches thereof: In his novel ""The Adventure of the Peerless Peer"", Tarzan and Sherlock Holmes team up. Farmer's Lord Grandrith and Doc Caliban series portrays analogues of Tarzan and Doc Savage. It consists of"
"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"
"Samuel Pickwick Samuel Pickwick is a fictional character and the main protagonist in ""The Pickwick Papers"" (1836), the first novel by author Charles Dickens. Pickwick is a retired successful businessman and is the Founder and Chairman of the Pickwick Club. Believed to have been named after the British businessman Eleazer Pickwick (c.1749–1837), although he is the main character in ""The Pickwick Papers"" Samuel Pickwick is mostly a passive and innocent figure in the story around whom the other more active characters operate. Having an almost childlike simplicity, Pickwick is loyal and protective toward his friends but is often hoodwinked by"
"fancy"". Dickens's biographer Claire Tomalin regards him as the greatest creator of character in English fiction after Shakespeare. Dickensian characters are amongst the most memorable in English literature, especially so because of their typically whimsical names. The likes of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Oliver Twist, The Artful Dodger, Fagin, Bill Sikes, Pip, Miss Havisham, Sydney Carton, Charles Darnay, David Copperfield, Mr. Micawber, Abel Magwitch, Daniel Quilp, Samuel Pickwick, Wackford Squeers, and Uriah Heep are so well known as to be part and parcel of British culture, and in some cases have passed into ordinary language: a"
"but they end up at the Cratchits' home in the present, where we meet Mrs. Cratchit and her eternally hungry yet eternally sunny children, all 21 of them. The majority of the 21 live in ""a bunch in the root cellar."" Most of the characters retain their original Dickensian qualities. Ebenezer Scrooge is old and miserly. Bob Cratchit is the gentle family man who is the primary target of Scrooge's cheapness. Tiny Tim is crippled and heart-rending. Equally heart-rending is Little Nell from Dickens' ""The Old Curiosity Shop"", who appears as one of the Cratchit children. In typical Durang style,"
"Jarndyce and Jarndyce Jarndyce and Jarndyce (or Jarndyce v Jarndyce) is a fictional court case in ""Bleak House"" (1852-3) by Charles Dickens, progressing in the English Court of Chancery. The case is a central plot device in the novel and has become a byword for seemingly interminable legal proceedings. Dickens refers to the case as ""Jarndyce and Jarndyce"", the way it would be spoken of. The ""v"" in the case title is an abbreviation of the Latin ""versus"", but is normally pronounced ""and"" for civil cases in England and Wales. ""Jarndyce v Jarndyce"" concerns the fate of a large inheritance."