"on ""Oliver Twist"", includes the songs ""Food, Glorious Food"", ""Consider Yourself"" and ""You've Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two"". Two more Dickens stories turned into musicals were ""A Christmas Carol"" (filmed as ""Scrooge"" in 1970) and ""The Old Curiosity Shop"", which became ""Mr Quilp"" in 1975. The musical adaptation of ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"" with Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark made use of several London locations, including the dining room at the Savoy Hotel and the Salisbury pub in the heart of the West End. ""Quadrophenia"" (1979) draws its soundtrack from the album of the same name, a rock opera"
"without winking, bit his fork and spoon till they bent again, and in short performed so many horrifying and uncommon acts that the women were nearly frightened out of their wits, and began to doubt if he were really a human creature."" He is the most repulsive of all Dickens' grotesque characters, with no redeeming features. Daniel Quilp lives in Tower Hill on the North side of the River Thames; he also has a wharf on the south side of the river from where he conducts his business as a ship breaker and usurer. He takes great pleasure in tormenting"
"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"
"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,"
"far-off village (identified by Dickens as Tong, Shropshire), but this comes at a considerable cost to Nell's health. Meanwhile, Kit, having lost his job at the curiosity shop, has found new employment with the kind Mr and Mrs Garland. Here he is contacted by a mysterious 'single gentleman' who is looking for news of Nell and her grandfather. The 'single gentleman' and Kit's mother go after them unsuccessfully, and encounter Quilp, who is also hunting for the runaways. Quilp forms a grudge against Kit and has him framed as a thief. Kit is sentenced to transportation. However, Dick Swiveller proves"
"Quilp, who knows full well that there is no fortune, but sadistically chooses to 'help' them to enjoy the misery it will inflict on all concerned. Quilp begins to try to track Nell down, but the fugitives are not easily discovered. To keep Dick Swiveller under his eye, Quilp arranges for him to be taken as a clerk by Quilp's lawyer, Mr. Brass. At the Brass firm, Dick befriends the mistreated maidservant and nicknames her 'the Marchioness'. Nell, having fallen in with a number of characters, some villainous and some kind, succeeds in leading her grandfather to safety in a"
"UK, by Poisoned Pen Press in the US, and by Luebbe in Germany. Daniel is a historian with a personal and professional interest in the work of detectives who has abandoned a highly successful career following the suicide of his partner. During the course of the Lake District Mysteries, Daniel comes to know Detective Chief Inspector Hannah Scarlett and gradually a relationship develops between them. Daniel first appeared in ""The Coffin Trail"". She is a Detective Chief Inspector in the Cumbria Constabulary and heads the Cold Case Review Team. Hannah first appeared in ""The Coffin Trail"". She lives with bookseller"
". In 2002 the book was adapted into a serial drama by the same name, written by Andrew Davies and directed by Tom Hooper. The three part show was broadcast on BBC One from 23 November to 7 December 2002. Hugh Dancy starred as the titular Daniel Deronda, with the show winning two British Academy Television Craft Awards, a Banff Rockie Award, and a Broadcasting Press Guild Award. Daniel Deronda Daniel Deronda is a novel by George Eliot, first published in 1876. It was the last novel she completed and the only one set in the contemporary Victorian society of"
"Stevenson inserts seafaring adventure in chapters 4–6 of Book 3, wherein Dick and the outlaws steal a ship and attempt a seaside rescue of Joanna. They are unsuccessful, and after Joanna is moved to Sir Daniel's main quarters in Shoreby, Dick visits her in the guise of a Franciscan friar. Stevenson, the populariser of the tales of the Arabian nights, has Dick tell the tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves in Book 4, chapter 6 to help him escape from the ruined sea captain Arblaster, whose ship Dick and the outlaws had stolen. While shadowing Sir Daniel, Dick"
"Her grandfather loves her dearly, and Nell does not complain, but she lives a lonely existence with almost no friends her own age. Her only friend is Kit, an honest boy employed at the shop, whom she is teaching to write. Secretly obsessed with ensuring that Nell does not die in poverty as her parents did, her grandfather attempts to provide Nell with a good inheritance through gambling at cards. He keeps his nocturnal games a secret, but borrows heavily from the evil Daniel Quilp, a malicious, grotesquely deformed, hunchbacked dwarf moneylender. In the end, he gambles away what little"
"later described by Cecil Day-Lewis, author of gentleman detective Nigel Strangeways, as an ""unspeakable public school bully"". The novel ""Bulldog Drummond"" begins when Drummond places an advertisement in a newspaper looking for adventure to lift the ennui of his life in post-war London. The response comes from Phyllis Benton, who is concerned for the health and well-being of her father, over whom Henry Lakington and Carl Peterson have a hold. At the end of the novel Drummond and Phyllis marry, and remain married throughout the course of the McNeile and Fairlie series of books, in contrast to the films, which"
"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"
"their experience of life. After they reconcile, they hold hands, and Pip sees no shadow to part them again. The novel has been adapted into films often. The character of Pip has been played in films (in order by year through 2012) by: Jack Pickford (1917)<br>Phillips Holmes (1934)<br>John Mills (1946)<br>Dinsdale Landen (1959)<br>Gary Bond (1967)<br>Simon Gipps-Kent (1974)<br>Michael York (1974)<br>Gerry Sundquist (1981)<br>Todd Boyce (1986)<br>Anthony Calf (1989)<br>Ethan Hawke (1998)<br>Ioan Gruffudd (1999)<br>Douglas Booth (2011)<br>Jeremy Irvine (2012) Pip (Great Expectations) Philip Pirrip, called Pip, is the protagonist and narrator in Charles Dickens's novel ""Great Expectations"" (1861). He is amongst the most popular characters in English"
"while Orlick remains a slave of his condition, solely responsible for Mrs Gargery's fate. Dickens also uses Pip's upper class counterpart, Bentley Drummle, ""the double of a double"", according to Trotter, in a similar way. Like Orlick, Drummle is powerful, swarthy, unintelligible, hot-blooded, and lounges and lurks, biding his time. Estella rejects Pip for this rude, uncouth but well-born man, and ends Pip's hope. Finally the lives of both Orlick and Drummle end violently. Although the novel is written in first person, the reader knows—as an essential prerequisite—that ""Great Expectations"" is not an autobiography but a novel, a work of"
"serialisation from 2002, had Romola Garai as Gwendolen. Gwendolen Harleth Gwendolen Harleth, later Gwendolen Grandcourt, is a central character in George Eliot's novel ""Daniel Deronda"" (1876). She acts as a foil to Mirah Lapidoth. Gwendolen Harleth is beautiful and wilful, desired by many men, which she revels in. However, her family falls on hard times soon after the novel begins. It becomes the once proud Gwendolen's fate to have to work as a governess in order to support herself and her family. She desperately tries to escape that fate, and explores the possibility of working on the stage as an"
"meetings with important members of British society. Soon, Daniel gains the patronage of Roger Comstock as his architect. While under Roger's patronage, the actress Tess becomes Daniel's mistress both at court and in bed. Finally the book returns to 1713, where Daniel's ship fends off several of Teach's pirate ships. Soon they find out that Teach is after Daniel alone; however, with the application of trigonometry, the ship is able to escape the bay and the pirate band. ""The King of Vagabonds"" focuses on the travels of ""Half-Cocked"" Jack Shaftoe. It begins by recounting Jack's childhood in the slums outside"
"Gwendolen Harleth Gwendolen Harleth, later Gwendolen Grandcourt, is a central character in George Eliot's novel ""Daniel Deronda"" (1876). She acts as a foil to Mirah Lapidoth. Gwendolen Harleth is beautiful and wilful, desired by many men, which she revels in. However, her family falls on hard times soon after the novel begins. It becomes the once proud Gwendolen's fate to have to work as a governess in order to support herself and her family. She desperately tries to escape that fate, and explores the possibility of working on the stage as an actress. She is sorely disabused of that notion,"
"first Victorian novel with a child protagonist. On 2 April 1836, after a one-year engagement, and between episodes two and three of ""The Pickwick Papers"", Dickens married Catherine Thomson Hogarth (1816–1879), the daughter of George Hogarth, editor of the ""Evening Chronicle"". They were married in St. Luke's Church, Chelsea, London. After a brief honeymoon in Chalk in Kent, the couple returned to lodgings at Furnival's Inn. The first of their ten children, Charley, was born in January 1837, and a few months later the family set up home in Bloomsbury at 48 Doughty Street, London, (on which Charles had a"
"firstly that of ""foster parents"", Miss Havisham, Magwitch, and Joe, and secondly that of ""young people"", Estella, Pip and Biddy. There is a further organizing element that can be labelled ""Dangerous Lovers"", which includes Compeyson, Bentley Drummle and Orlick. Pip is the centre of this web of love, rejection and hatred. Dickens contrasts this ""dangerous love"" with the relationship of Biddy and Joe, which grows from friendship to marriage. This is ""the general frame of the novel"". The term ""love"" is generic, applying it to both Pip's true love for Estella and the feelings Estella has for Drummle, which are"
"is discovered by the docks and the manuscript is nowhere to be found, Osgood must embark on a transatlantic quest to unearth the novel that will save his venerable business and reveal Daniel’s killer. Danger and intrigue abound on the journey, for which Osgood has chosen Rebecca Sand, Daniel’s older sister, to help clear her brother’s name and achieve their singular mission. As they attempt to uncover Dickens’s final mystery, Osgood and Rebecca find themselves racing the clock through a dangerous web of literary lions and drug dealers, sadistic thugs and blue bloods, and competing members of the inner circle."
"""The Pickwick Papers"" (1836–1837), ""David Copperfield"" (1849–1850), and most extensively in ""Little Dorrit"" (1855–1857), whose main character, Amy, is born in the Marshalsea. Trey Philpotts writes that every detail about the Marshalsea in ""Little Dorrit"" reflects the real prison of the 1820s. According to Philpotts, Dickens rarely made mistakes and did not exaggerate; if anything, he downplayed the licentiousness of Marshalsea life, perhaps to protect Victorian sensibilities. Like the first Marshalsea, the second was notoriously cramped. In 1827, 414 out of its 630 debtors were there for debts under £20; 1,890 people in Southwark were imprisoned that year for a"
"1969 Jingle was played by Aubrey Woods. Patrick Malahide played Mr. Jingle in 1985 for the BBC's ""The Pickwick Papers"". Alfred Jingle Alfred Jingle is a fictional character who appears in the novel ""The Pickwick Papers"" by Charles Dickens. He is a strolling actor and an engaging charlatan and trickster noted for his bizarre anecdotes and distinctive mangling of English syntax. He first appears in chapter two of the novel and accompanies the Pickwickians on their first coach journey. As they leave the Golden Cross Inn at Charing Cross, Jingle holds forth in characteristic mode on the dangers of decapitation"
"Dalziel and Pascoe Detective Superintendent Andrew ""Andy"" Dalziel and Detective Sergeant, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe are two fictional Yorkshire detectives featuring in a series of novels by Reginald Hill. Dalziel is depicted as being rude, insensitive and blunt, whereas Pascoe is calm, polite and well mannered. Hill's mysteries often break with storytelling tradition. The novels employ various structural tricks, such as presenting parts of the story in non-chronological order, or alternating with sections from a novel supposedly written by Peter's wife, Ellie Pascoe (née Soper). The novella ""One Small Step"" is even set in the future, and deals with"
"Kit's innocence with the help of his friend the Marchioness. Quilp is hunted down and dies trying to escape his pursuers. At the same time, a coincidence leads Mr Garland to knowledge of Nell's whereabouts, and he, Kit, and the single gentleman (who turns out to be the younger brother of Nell's grandfather) go to find her. Sadly, by the time they arrive, Nell has died as a result of her arduous journey. Her grandfather, already mentally infirm, refuses to admit she is dead and sits every day by her grave waiting for her to come back until, a few"
"adventures in the series, the children change roles and become explorers or miners. In the novel ""Winter Holiday"", the children meet Dick and Dorothea Callum, siblings visiting the area. Dick and Dorothea are often referred to as ""The Ds"" and appear in subsequent novels. Dick considers himself a scientist, while Dorothea sees herself as a writer. Two of the books feature the Callums without the Swallows or Amazons: ""Coot Club"" and ""The Big Six"". They are set in an accurate representation of the Norfolk Broads, particularly the small village of Horning and its surrounding rivers and broads. Two other books"
"Pub crawl guides today. When Oliver joins the Artful Dodger to travel to Fagin's lair, they make their way through a series of streets until they reach the neighbourhood of Saffron Hill. While the novel's final scene is set on Jacob's Island, where the murderous Bill Sikes meets his death while trying to escape into part of the River Neckinger known as ""Folly's Ditch"". Charles Dickens' father was incarcerated in the debtors' prison of Marshalsea in Southwark, along with his wife and all their children except for Dickens and his sister Fanny, where much of Little Dorrit is set. Most"
"favourite in the book will be—or rather is already—Bella Wilfer. She is evidently a pet of the author's, and she will long remain the darling of half the households of England and America."" E S Dallas, in his 1865 review, concurred that ""Mr Dickens has never done anything in the portraiture of women so pretty and so perfect"" as Bella. Dallas also admired the creation of Jenny Wren—who was greeted with contempt by Henry James—stating that, ""The dolls' dressmaker is one of his most charming pictures, and Mr Dickens tells her strange story with a mixture of humour and pathos"
"Dickens' story provided inspiration for the web comic ""The Adventures of Dorrit Little (""http://dorritlittle.com/) by artist Monica McKelvey Johnson. Online editions Map Little Dorrit Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew. The novel satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable"
"Peggotty The Peggotty family are fictional characters in Charles Dickens's 1850 novel ""David Copperfield"". Yarmouth fisherman Daniel Peggotty is the brother of Clara. Referred to as ""Mr. Peggotty"", he is a fisherman and dealer in lobsters, crabs, and crawfish. He lives in a converted boat on the beach at Yarmouth with Emily, Ham, and Mrs. Gummidge. When Emily abandons them to elope with Steerforth, Daniel vows to find her. Steerforth later leaves Emily and she is re-united with Daniel. At the end of the novel Daniel, Emily, and Mrs. Gummidge resettle in Australia. Clara Peggotty is usually referred to as"
"money they have, and Quilp seizes the opportunity to take possession of the shop and evict Nell and her grandfather. Her grandfather suffers a breakdown that leaves him bereft of his wits, and Nell takes him away to the Midlands of England, to live as beggars. Convinced that the old man has stored up a large and prosperous fortune for Nell, her wastrel older brother, Frederick, convinces the good-natured but easily led Dick Swiveller to help him track Nell down, so that Swiveller can marry Nell and share her supposed inheritance with Frederick. To this end, they join forces with"
"stop her because of her relatively high social position. """"Cosy mysteries set in England in the 1920s"""" Daisy also appears in short stories: Carola Dunn Carola Dunn (born 1946) is an English-born American writer of detective fiction. Dunn attended Friend's School in Saffron Walden, and graduated from the University of Manchester. She began by writing historical romances but later switched to crime stories. Today she lives and works in Eugene, Oregon. The hero of her crime novels is the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, a freelance writer, sometimes known as ""Miss Daisy"". Dalrymple's husband is Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher. He tries,"
"Pip (Great Expectations) Philip Pirrip, called Pip, is the protagonist and narrator in Charles Dickens's novel ""Great Expectations"" (1861). He is amongst the most popular characters in English literature, widely portrayed all over the world on stage and screen. Pip narrates his story many years after the events of the novel take place. The novel follows Pip's process from childhood innocence to adulthood. The financial and social rise of the protagonist is accompanied by an emotional and moral deterioration, which forces Pip to recognize his negative expectations in a new self-awareness. When the novel begins in the ear1800s, Philip is"
"Little Dorrit Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew. The novel satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned."