Which eponymous Dickens character married Madeline Bray?
"single day. His favourite actor was Charles Mathews, and Dickens learnt his ""monopolylogues"", (farces in which Mathews played every character), by heart. Then, having learned Gurney's system of shorthand in his spare time, he left to become a freelance reporter. A distant relative, Thomas Charlton, was a freelance reporter at Doctors' Commons, and Dickens was able to share his box there to report the legal proceedings for nearly four years. This education was to inform works such as ""Nicholas Nickleby"", ""Dombey and Son"", and especially ""Bleak House""—whose vivid portrayal of the machinations and bureaucracy of the legal system did much"
"Atkyns Bray, the vicar of Tavistock. She then began writing historical novels, and from 1826 to 1874 produced at least a dozen. Some of these, such as ""The Talba, or the Moor of Portugal"" (1830) dealt with foreign life, but her most popular novels revived the principal families of the counties of Devon and Cornwall, such as the Trelawneys of Trelawne, the Pomeroys, and the Courtenays of Walreddon. They proved so popular that they were issued in a set of ten volumes by Longmans in 1845–46, and reprinted by Chapman & Hall as late as 1884. Ann Bray's second husband"
"part of his tomb may still be seen. He had married Margaret, the daughter of his cousin, John Bray, half-brother to Sir Reginald Bray (d.1503), one of Henry VII's powerful counsellors. They had at least three sons and four daughters, including Thomas, 2nd Baron Sandys of the Vyne, and Mary, who married Sir William Pelham, and was the mother of Sir William Pelham and Sir Edmund Pelham, Lord Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer. Henry VIII fell for Anne Boleyn in 1526, the same year in which Sandys was appointed Lord Chamberlain and Captain of Guisnes. By 1529 Anne Boleyn"
"Almost immediately after his ordination he entered himself at Trinity College, Cambridge, and took the degree of Bachelor of Divinity as a ten-year man in 1822. He lived in Tavistock for the rest of his life, and if he differed from his parishioners on politics or preached over their heads, he retained their respect. In 1822 he married Anna Eliza, the widow of Charles Alfred Stothard, and an amusing account of the habits of the worthy vicar and his wife is embodied in the latter's autobiography. Bray died at Tavistock 17 July 1857. During his lifetime he published several selections"
"Dora Annie Dickens Dora Annie Dickens (16 August 1850 – 14 April 1851) was the infant daughter of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. She was the ninth of their ten children, and the youngest of their three daughters. Born at 1 Devonshire Terrace, Dora Dickens was named after the character Dora Spenlow, the child-bride of David Copperfield in Dickens's 1850 novel ""David Copperfield"". According to Dickens's oldest daughter Mary, on the day of Dora's unexpected death on 14 April 1851, her father had spent much of his time ""playing with the children and carrying little Dora about"
"married on 2 April 1836 in St Luke's Church, Chelsea, honeymooning in Chalk, near Chatham in Kent. They set up a home in Bloomsbury, and went on to have ten children. Catherine's sister Mary Hogarth entered Dickens's Doughty Street household to offer support to her newly married sister and brother-in-law. It was not unusual for the unwed sister of a new wife to live with and help a newly married couple. Dickens became very attached to Mary, and she died in his arms after a brief illness in 1837. She became a character in many of his books, and her"
"Charlotte Mary Brame Charlotte Mary Brame (usually known as Charlotte M. Brame, last name sometimes mistakenly given as Braeme; appeared under pseudonyms in America, notably Bertha M. Clay, and was sometimes identified by the name of her most famous novel, Dora Thorne) (1 November 1836 – 25 November 1884) was an English novelist. She was born in Hinckley, Leicestershire, to Benjamin and Charlotte Agnes Law, devout Roman Catholics. After attending convent schools in Bristol and Preston and a finishing school in Paris, she worked as a governess before marrying Phillip Edward Brame (1839–1886), a London-based jeweller, on 7 January 1863."
"entertainment and resorts, as well as maintaining a strong belief against the selling of alcohol. In addition to residing in Beaumont, he owned estates in Houston and San Antonio. He remained a bachelor until the age of 45. In 1905, he adopted a young woman named Annie Jahn, who at the time was fifteen. Three years later Higgins married her, and later had three children with her, despite the scandal. Higgins died in San Antonio on June 5, 1955. On December 4, 1955, six months after Higgins' death, he was dramatized by the actor Robert Bray in the CBS history"
"Caroline Bray Caroline Bray, known as Cara Bray, née Hennell (4 June 1814 – 21 February 1905) was a British writer of children's stories and school textbooks. With her husband Charles Bray, she was a Freethinker and friend of George Eliot. Hennell was born in 1814. She was a daughter of the Unitarian family of James and Elizabeth Hennell (born Marshall). Her mother had been born in Loughborough in the East Midlands in 1778 and had the maiden name of Marshall. Her father was born in 1778 and he had become a partner in the Manchester merchants of Fazy &"
"Elizabeth Dickens Elizabeth Culliford Dickens (née Barrow; 21 December 1789 – 13 September 1863) was the wife of John Dickens and the mother of English novelist Charles Dickens. She was the source for Mrs. Nickleby in her son's novel ""Nicholas Nickleby"" and for Mrs Micawber in ""David Copperfield"". One of eight children of Mary Culliford (1771–1851) and Charles Barrow (1759–1826), Elizabeth Barrow was introduced to John Dickens by her brother, Thomas Culliford Barrow, when the two men were working at the Navy Pay Office in nearby Somerset House. When John Dickens first met Elizabeth she was ""a small pretty girl"
"she eventually dies. Charles Dickens named his daughter Dora Annie Dickens after the character on her birth in 1850, but she died the following year at the age of eight months. Dora Spenlow Dora Spenlow is a character in the novel ""David Copperfield"" by Charles Dickens. She is portrayed as beautiful but childish. David, who is employed by her father, the lawyer Mr Spenlow, falls in love with Dora at first sight and marries her. She proves unable to cope with the responsibilities of married life, and is more interested in playing with her dog, Jip, than in acting as"
"and dies. John Jarndyce takes in Ada and her child, a boy whom she names Richard. Esther and Woodcourt marry and live in a Yorkshire house which Jarndyce gives to them. The couple later raise two daughters. Many of the novel's subplots focus on minor characters. One such subplot is the hard life and happy, though difficult, marriage of Caddy Jellyby and Prince Turveydrop. Another plot focuses on George Rouncewell's rediscovery of his family, and his reunion with his mother and brother. As usual, Dickens drew upon many real people and places but imaginatively transformed them in his novel (see"
"called him the greatest tragedian of the day. Brooke, however, did not have the temperament to make the best use of his success. He was not a good businessman and drank too much. After playing for some time in the country his magnificent voice began to fail, and in 1850 he was obtaining advice from a London specialist who would not allow him to appear more than once or twice a week. However, in November of that year he was playing with Helena Faucit again and drawing large crowds. In October 1851 he was married to Marianne Bray. In December"
"as opposed to Hannah Gengell. Any mention of Bray's wife simply refers to her as ""Hannah"" and no mention of her maiden name is ever recorded in the sparse times she is ever mentioned. No record of her death is known to exist. Two persons who had access to much early documentary material about the Wilkins family, now lost, Martha J. Averill and Emily Ann Milliken née Wilkins, maintained that Bray's wife was Hannah Gengell, and furthermore the Wilkins are described with familial kindness in John Gengell’s will dated 10 April 1685. However, a 1984 article from The American Genealogist"
"a skeptic too. In 1851, she and her mother left Hackney in London, and moved to Ivy Cottage in Coventry in the Midlands. There, they lived next door to her sister Caroline Bray and her husband Charles Bray. Sara become governess to her nephew, Franks and the Bray's adopted daughter. In 1842, at Rosehill, Bray's house in Coventry, she first Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot). They corresponded constantly for the following twelve years. Eliot's endearments including ""Beloved Achates"" to ""Cara Sposa"" indicate their intimacy. Hennel declined to translate the German theologian David Strauss's "" Das Leben Jesu"" and instead agreed"
"to last, in parallel with that with Suzanne, for the rest of his life."" Soon, their association became ""a very intimate and personal one"". In a visit to Paris in January 1961, Bray told Beckett she had decided to move there. His response was unusual. In March 1961, he married Déchevaux-Dumesnil in a civil ceremony in Folkestone. On the face of it, this was to make sure that, if he died before her, Déchevaux-Dumesnil would inherit the rights to his work because there was no common-law marriage under French law. He may also have wanted to affirm his loyalty to"
"was a drunkard and was prone to riotous behaviour. In 1821 he married Joanna, who was a lapsed Methodist and they eventually had seven children. In 1823 he had a close escape from a mining accident, and later said that he was converted in November of that year through reading John Bunyan's ""Visions of Heaven and Hell"". He became attached to a group of Methodists known as the Bible Christians, and became a well-known but unconventional preacher; his sermons being enlivened by spontaneous outbursts of singing and dancing. Bray did not restrict his activities to preaching, raising two orphans along"
"in Cambridge and was friends with its founder, John Alcock. Bray died without issue on 5 August 1503, and was buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor. Bray had a brother of the whole blood, John Bray, and an elder half brother, also named John Bray. After litigation, Reginald Bray's estates were divided between his nephew, Edmund Braye, eldest son of his brother of the whole blood, John Bray, and William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys, who had married Margery Bray, the daughter of Bray's elder brother of the half blood, John Bray. Bray married, about 1475, Katherine Hussey (d.1506), the younger"
"from such a witchcraft-sceptical text. Ady's books here, or Reginald Scot's and Roger William's works cited earlier, resemble books on conscience that came later that also use the Bible, notably those of the Christian Abolitionist Movement. For instance, ""A Condensed Anti-Slavery Bible Argument"" (1845) by George Bourne, and ""God Against Slavery"" (1857) by George B. Cheever. There is no ""Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"" life of Ady, and this is a surprising omission. Some biographical information about Ady is independent of his writings. On 10 June 1634 Thomas Ady or Adye of Weathersfield, ""A famous Dr of Physick"", married Barbara"
"is condemned to read Dickens to his captor indefinitely. Back in England, Tony's death is accepted; Hetton passes to his cousins, who erect a memorial to his memory, while Brenda marries Tony's friend Jock Grant-Menzies. Evelyn Waugh, born in 1903, was the younger son of Arthur Waugh, the managing director of the London publishing firm of Chapman & Hall. After attending Lancing College and Hertford College, Oxford, Waugh taught for three years in a series of private preparatory schools before beginning his career as a writer. His first commercially printed work was a short story, ""The Balance"", which Chapman and"
"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"
"in 1831. When he died in 1839 she moved in from the provinces and took a house at 29 Half Moon Street in London. She married Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet after a one month engagement on 9 July 1844. His family were not keen given her lack of background and that she was maybe too old to deliver an heir. Sir William had enjoyed the support of Harriet Grote and her husband, but Harriet broke with him over his marriage. An ambitions and scheming character in Dickens' Bleak House was said to be based on Molesworth. She became known"
"Pinch from ""Martin Chuzzlewit""; Lilian, the child who appears in Trotty Veck's visions in ""The Chimes""; and Dot Peerybingle, the sister in ""The Cricket on the Hearth"". Unlike Hogarth, Dickens' wife Catherine does not appear to have been the inspiration for any of his characters. Mary Hogarth Mary Scott Hogarth (26 October 1819 – 7 May 1837) was the sister of Catherine Dickens ( Hogarth) and the sister-in-law of Charles Dickens. Hogarth first met Charles Dickens aged 14, and after Dickens married Hogarth's sister Catherine, Mary lived with the couple for a year. Hogarth died suddenly in 1837, which caused"
"dates from this period. He produced some plays at Daly's Theatre on Broadway in 1904 after Grau retired. One of these, Henrik Ibsen's ""Hedda Gabler"", starred Nance O'Neill, a close friend of Lizzie Borden. In 1885 he married the Australian actress Agnes Booth (née Marion Agnes Land Rookes) (4 October 1841? - 2 January 1910), the widow of Junius Brutus Booth Jr., (brother of John Wilkes Booth and Edwin Booth, owner of Booth's Theatre) as her second husband. Together they managed the huge Masconomo hotel in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts until her death in 1910. He purchased the property outright at public"
"and the Tavy"" (1836). When she published her work on Switzerland she embodied with it many passages in the diary which her husband kept whilst on the tour. Edward Atkyns Bray Edward Atkyns Bray (1778–1857) was a British poet, vicar, and miscellaneous writer. Bray was the only son of Edward Bray, solicitor, and manager of the Devonshire estates of the Duke of Bedford, was born at the Abbey House, Tavistock, 18 Dec 1778. His mother, Mary, a daughter of Dr. Brandreth of Houghton Regis, and the widow of Arthur Turner, would not allow her son to be sent to a"
"As a young girl, Ida enjoyed reading Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales and her favourite was a story called ‘Little Ida’s Flowers’. As a result she insisted that she be known as Ida from then on. Against her father's wishes, on 3 January 1880 Ida married Horace Darwin, son of the naturalist Charles Darwin at St Mary's, Bryanston Square. They had a son and two daughters: In 1908, Ida, along with Florence Ada Keyes, founded the 'Cambridge Association for the Feeble-Minded'. This was in response to recommendations by the 'Royal Commission for the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded' in"
"to Lord Dumbello. But it is the determination of Lord Lufton that in the end vanquishes his doting mother. The book ends with Lucy and Ludovic's marriage as well as three other marriages. Two of these involve the daughters of Bishop Proudie and Archdeacon Grantly. The rivalry between Mrs Proudie and Mrs Grantly over their matrimonial ambitions forms a significant comic subplot, with the latter triumphant. The other marriage is that of the outspoken heiress, Martha Dunstable, to Doctor Thorne, the eponymous hero of the preceding novel in the series. In his autobiography, Trollope described ""Framley Parsonage"": ""The story was"
"there. He also studied at Leeds University. Brendan was married to Margaret (Peggy) O'Brien for 18 years, Peggy was Brendan's colleague in the English Department at Trinity College. They lived together in Sandymount, Dublin, with daughter Doodle for 12 years before separating. Brendan and Peggy remain friends and Peggy is now remarried. Peggy is a published poet and Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Kennelly's poetry can be scabrous, down-to-earth and colloquial. He avoids intellectual pretension and literary posturing, and his attitude to poetic language could be summed up in the title of one of his epic"
"avoid the scandal of it being known they were travelling together. Dickens leaves Nelly in the care of others, and tends to the injured and dying along the train. Nelly observes him retrieve a manuscript page of an episode of ""Our Mutual Friend"" on which he had been working. In the coming years, Nelly remains his secret mistress until his death in 1870. In 1876, she marries Oxford graduate George Wharton Robinson, twelve years her junior. The couple have a son and run a boys' school at Margate. While knowing that she knew Charles Dickens as a child, George does"
"""Home"" by T. W. Robertson. He also played Mr. Cox in revivals of ""Box and Cox"" by John Maddison Morton with such success that W. S. Gilbert later wrote, ""Mr. Morton's dialogue can only be properly given by Messrs. Buckstone and Compton, and in the mouths of any other actors it is, to those who have seen Messrs. Buckstone and Compton in the parts (and who has not?) a bore."" In 1848, Compton married actress Emmeline Catherine Montague (d. 1911). She had been a model for Daniel Maclise's paintings of Shakespearian scenes. In 1870, he was back at the Olympic"
"he marries another woman. After many years, both are single again, but they are never able to consummate their love. Dick saves Ottilie from bankruptcy by purchasing her home before she is evicted. Still later, the couple's grandchildren meet and marry happily. The original Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on August 16, 1917, and later moved to the 44th Street, Broadhurst and Lyric Theatres, running for a total of 492 performances. It starred Peggy Wood and Charles Purcell and featured Ralph Herbert, William Norris and Gertrude Vanderbilt. ""The New York Times"" gave the show a rave review, saying"
"Charles Bray Charles Bray (31 January 1811 – 5 October 1884) was a prosperous British ribbon manufacturer, social reformer, philanthropist, philosopher, and phrenologist. Charles Bray was a prosperous ribbon manufacturer who owned the ""Coventry Herald"" newspaper. His father had died in 1835, leaving him and each of his seven siblings a substantial inheritance. Charles married Caroline ""Cara"" Hennell (4 June 1814 – 21 February 1905) on 26 May 1836 at Hackney, Middlesex, England. A disciple of the social reformer Robert Owen (1771–1858), he used the wealth generated from his businesses to establish nonsectarian public schools and to try to bring"
"Dora Spenlow Dora Spenlow is a character in the novel ""David Copperfield"" by Charles Dickens. She is portrayed as beautiful but childish. David, who is employed by her father, the lawyer Mr Spenlow, falls in love with Dora at first sight and marries her. She proves unable to cope with the responsibilities of married life, and is more interested in playing with her dog, Jip, than in acting as David's housekeeper. All this has a profound effect on David, but he still loves her. However, a year into their marriage she suffers a miscarriage, and her health steadily declines until"