In which Dickens novel do we find the sanctimonious architect and surveyor named 'Seth Pecksniff'?
"Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, explains that Cairo was not at all what Dickens had expected. It had been advertised to him as “up and coming, with a great future.” It was anything but that and Dickens used Cairo as a model for the disastrous development of Eden in ""Martin Chuzzlewitt"". “...we arrived at a spot so much more desolate than any we had yet beheld, that the forlornest places we had passed, were, in comparison with it, full of interest. At the junction of the two rivers, on ground so flat and low and marshy, that"
"discovered in the church's crypt by author Stephen Jarvis. The tombstone has since been acquired by the Charles Dickens Museum at 48 Doughty Street, London where it went on permanent public display from 27 July 2010. In his 2014 novel , which is part dramatised fictional biography of Seymour, part forensic analysis of the ""authorial"" controversy, part socio-literary history of the entire Pickwick phenomenon, Stephen Jarvis puts together a substantial case against Dickens's and Chapman's accepted version of events. This is plausibly based on inconsistencies in Dickens's various prefaces to the book and flaws in Chapman's supporting testimony, as well"
"Seckford Hall as the country residence in 1530. He was a close advisor to Elizabeth I. His parents are buried in Great Bealings Church. Admiral Pelham Aldrich, who was Admiral-superintendent, Portsmouth, and attended several surveying expeditions around the world, was a resident and is buried in the churchyard. Another resident was Major Edward Moor. He served with the East India Company, being wounded three times. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and an author on Indian mythology. He wrote the mystery, ""Bealings Bells"", published in 1841, about an apparently haunted system of bell-pulls. In the 1820s, with the"
"Stories"", a 60-minute animation made by Emerald City Films (1987). These included ""The Ghost in the Wardrobe"", ""The Mail Coach Ghosts"", and ""The Goblin and the Gravedigger"". Stephen Jarvis's novel ""Death and Mr Pickwick"" (2014) is in part a literary thriller, examining in forensic detail the question of whether the idea, character and physiognomy of Samuel Pickwick originated with Dickens, or with the original illustrator and instigator of the project, Robert Seymour. The conclusion of the narrator is that the accepted version of events given by Dickens and the publisher Edward Chapman is untrue. The novel was published in 19"
"a real Yorkshire schoolmaster named William Shaw became the basis for Dickens's brutal character of Wackford Squeers. Dickens visited Shaw's school in Bowes and based the school section of ""Nicholas Nickleby"" on his visit. Like most of Dickens's early works, the novel had a contemporary setting. Much of the action takes place in London, with several chapters taking place in Dickens's birthplace of Portsmouth, as well as settings in Yorkshire and Devon. The tone of the work is that of ironic social satire, with Dickens taking aim at what he perceives to be social injustices. Many memorable characters are introduced,"
"he donated the first books to what would become Miskatonic's famed library. Reverend of the Second Church (later First Baptist Church) of Arkham and author of ""Thaumaturgical Prodigies in the New-England Canaan"". See ""The Lurker at the Threshold"". Aged writer of pulp fiction in Providence, Rhode Island and friend of Randolph Carter. (The character is based on Lovecraft, hence the name.) Renowned Boston painter infamous for his ghoulish works. In 1926, he vanished from his home (though years later he resurfaced as a ghoul in the Dreamlands). See ""Pickman's Model"". In Henry Kuttner's ""The Salem Horror"", an alleged witch and"
"The Kilns The Kilns, also known as C. S. Lewis House, is the house on the outskirts of Headington Quarry (where Lewis is buried at Holy Trinity Church) in the village of Risinghurst, Oxford, England, where the author C. S. Lewis wrote all of his Narnia books and other classics. The house itself was featured in the Narnia books. Lewis's gardener at The Kilns, Fred Paxford, is said to have inspired the character of Puddleglum the Marshwiggle in ""The Silver Chair"". The Kilns was built in 1922 on the site of a former brickworks. The lake in the garden is"
"The Kilns The Kilns, also known as C. S. Lewis House, is the house on the outskirts of Headington Quarry (where Lewis is buried at Holy Trinity Church) in the village of Risinghurst, Oxford, England, where the author C. S. Lewis wrote all of his Narnia books and other classics. The house itself was featured in the Narnia books. Lewis's gardener at The Kilns, Fred Paxford, is said to have inspired the character of Puddleglum the Marshwiggle in ""The Silver Chair"". The Kilns was built in 1922 on the site of a former brickworks. The lake in the garden is"
"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"
"T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land (1922). Algernon Stitch lived in a ""superb creation by Nicholas Hawksmoor"" in London in the novel ""Scoop"" by Evelyn Waugh (1938). Hawksmoor is the subject of a poem by Iain Sinclair called 'Nicholas Hawksmoor: His Churches' which appeared in Sinclair's collection of poems ""Lud Heat"" (1975). Sinclair promoted the poetic interpretation of the architect's singular style of architectural composition that Hawksmoor's churches formed a pattern consistent with the forms of Theistic Satanism though there is no documentary or historic evidence for this. This idea was, however, embellished by Peter Ackroyd in his novel"
"Hawksmoor (novel) Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by the English writer Peter Ackroyd. It won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian Fiction Prize. It tells the parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer, who builds seven churches in 18th-century London for which he needs human sacrifices, and Nicholas Hawksmoor, detective in the 1980s, who investigates murders committed in the same churches. ""Hawksmoor"" has been praised as Peter Ackroyd's best novel and an example of postmodernism. In the early 18th century, architect Nicholas Dyer is progressing work on several churches in London's East End. He is, however, involved in"
"Satanic practices (something inculcated in him as an orphan), a fact which he must keep secret from all his associates, including his supervisor Sir Christopher Wren. This is all the more challenging since he indulges in human sacrifice as part of the construction of the buildings. Dyer's simmering contempt for Wren is brought closest to the surface in discussions they have concerning rationalism versus Dyer's own carefully disguised brand of mysticism. In the 20th century, DCS Nicholas Hawksmoor is called in to investigate a bizarre series of murders by strangulation that have occurred in and around the churches designed by"
"novel ""radically subverts the conventions of historical fiction"" due to its idiosyncratic time structure. Nevertheless, Ackroyd uses historical characters, sites and occurrences in his book. Nicholas Dyer, the architect of the seven churches, is modelled on Nicholas Hawksmoor but doesn't share his death date (Dyer disappears in 1715, Hawksmoor died in 1736). As said in the novel, the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches, which had been established by an Act of Parliament in 1711, commissioned Hawksmoor to build six churches, all of which are dealt with in the novel: The only fictional church in the book is Little St"
"Peggotty Bluff Peggotty Bluff or Peggotty Camp, is a bluff on the north side and near the head of King Haakon Bay, South Georgia. In 1916, Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition party from Elephant Island established a camp, using the upturned ""James Caird"" near the head of King Haakon Bay which they called Peggotty Camp, after the Peggotty family in Charles Dickens' ""David Copperfield"" who lived in a home made from a beached boat. While they were waiting in this location, Henry McNish took screws from the boat and put them in the crew's shoes in order that they could"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"over which is a stone rubble wellhouse which was rebuilt probably in the nineteenth century and restored in the twentieth century. The wellhouse is a Grade II listed building. Also in the churchyard is a Cornish cross which consists of a head and upper part of the shaft. These were found built into the churchyard wall in 1863. John Betjeman referred to the church in his poem ""Sunday Afternoon Service at St. Enodoc"". The church is also featured prominently in Justin Cartwright's novel ""The Promise of Happiness"" (2004), partly set in Trebetherick. In the novel ""The Last Patriot"" by Brad"
"and damage the natural landscape. In 2007, negotiations took place to relocate the development to Dale View quarry in a less sensitive area. The landscapes of the Peak have inspired writers for centuries. Various places have been identified by Ralph Elliott and others as locations in the 14th-century poem ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight""; Lud's Church is thought to be the Green Chapel. Key scenes in Jane Austen's 1813 novel ""Pride and Prejudice"" are set in the Peak . ""Peveril of the Peak"" (1823) by Sir Walter Scott is a historical novel set at Peveril Castle, Castleton during the"
"relating to Anglo-Saxon antiquity and law, but was lost to a fire in 1466. Robert Ricart, from whose work The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar Ricart's Plan is taken, was a member of this brotherhood. All Saints' contains the ornate tomb of prominent slave trader Edward Colston. Corn Street was the location of ""The Bush"", 'the most famous of the coaching houses', until it was demolished in 1854 to make way for the new premises of ""West of England and South Wales District Bank"". When Dickens' Mr Pickwick came to Bristol, it was here that his fictional stay took place."
"Rochester Castle. There are however a few areas where the plot differs from accepted historical narrative. The historic city was for many years the favourite of Charles Dickens, who lived within the diocese at nearby Gads Hill Place, Higham, many of his novels being based on the area. Descriptions of the town appear in ""Pickwick Papers"", ""Great Expectations"" and (lightly fictionalised as ""Cloisterham"") in ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"". Elements of two houses in Rochester, Satis House and Restoration House, are used for Miss Havisham's house in ""Great Expectations"", Satis House. The actress Dame Sybil Thorndike and her brother Russell"
"that there is an unusually long hedge in Shelley made up of coppiced lime trees. He writes that this follows the boundaries of remnants of nineteenth-century clearances of some of the ancient forest. Hedges of this sort are known as assart hedges. Elizabeth Gosnold Tilney, sister of Jamestown colonist and explorer Bartholomew Gosnold, is buried at All Saints' Church, Shelley. An attempt has been made to use DNA from her remains to identify the body of her brother in Jamestown. Shelley, Suffolk Shelley is a small village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. Located on the west bank of the"
"in Broadstairs from around 1796 to 1822. Mary Pearson Strong's former home now hosts Broadstairs' Dickens House Museum. There is a public house in Clerkenwell, Central London, called ""The Betsey Trotwood"". It adopted the name in 1983, having previously been ""The Butcher's Arms"". Betsey Trotwood Betsey Trotwood is a fictional character from Charles Dickens' 1850 novel ""David Copperfield"". Betsey Trotwood is David Copperfield's great-aunt on his father's side, and has an unfavourable view of men and boys, having been ill-used and abandoned by a worthless husband earlier in life. She appears in the novel's first chapter, where she demonstrates her"
"widely believed that Dickens wrote the ""Pickwick Papers"" after visiting Bath using the surname he had seen there. His inn is also mentioned in the works of Jane Austen. Pickwick's descendants changed their name to Sainsbury. It has been speculated that part of the motive may have been to discard their lowly born ancestry and Dicken's caricatures that bore their name. Eleazer Pickwick Eleazer Pickwick (1748 or 1749 – 8 December 1837) was a British businessman. He became very rich and funded the local canal. Pickwick's grandfather, Moses, was a foundling who was discovered in an area of Corsham known"
"Gads Hill Place Gads Hill Place in Higham, Kent, sometimes spelt Gadshill Place and Gad's Hill Place, was the country home of Charles Dickens, the most successful British author of the Victorian era. Today the building is the independent Gad's Hill School. The house was built in 1780 for a former Mayor of Rochester, Thomas Stephens, opposite the present Sir John Falstaff Public House. Gad's Hill is where Falstaff commits the robbery that begins Shakespeare's Henriad trilogy (Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V). Charles Dickens first saw the mansion when he was 9 years old"
"used the term ""Gothic"" to describe the architecture of Maycomb's courthouse and in regard to Dill's exaggeratedly morbid performances as Boo Radley. Outsiders are also an important element of Southern Gothic texts and Scout and Jem's questions about the hierarchy in the town cause scholars to compare the novel to ""Catcher in the Rye"" and ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"". Despite challenging the town's systems, Scout reveres Atticus as an authority above all others, because he believes that following one's conscience is the highest priority, even when the result is social ostracism. However, scholars debate about the Southern Gothic classification, noting"
"in a car accident. Novelist Barbara Delinsky, author of the fictional ""Looking for Peyton Place"" (2006), summarized the storyline of ""Peyton Place"" on her website: ""Peyton Place"" opens in 1937. With the introduction of the small New Hampshire town and its characters, the social strata are clearly defined. Most noted among the well-to-do are Leslie Harrington, owner of the mill, and his spoiled son Rodney, the good-hearted doctor Matthew Swain and upstanding Seth Buswell, owner of the newspaper. The town's middle class is represented by the book's two main characters, Constance MacKenzie and her daughter Allison. The impoverished of the"
"alleyways were true to the period. Dickens World was based around the life of author Charles Dickens, briefly a resident of Chatham as a child and who, as an adult, lived at Gad's Hill Place in nearby Higham. Many of the locations and characters in his novels are based on buildings, places and people of the Medway Towns. Holcombe Manor was the inspiration for Dingley Dell, the house in Pickwick Papers, and some of Edwin Drood takes place in Rochester Cathedral. Dickens World is an indoor attraction, centred on a courtyard with facades of buildings related to Dickens, like Warren's"
"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,"
"such as HMS ""Ajax"". Charles Dickens' father worked in the dockyard, and Chatham, Rochester and the Cliffe marshes were to feature in many of his books. As an indication of the area's military importance, the first Ordnance Survey map ever drawn was the 1 inch map of Kent, published in 1801. Work on the map started in 1795. In the early 19th century smugglers were very active on the Kent coastline, with gangs, such as the Aldington Gang bringing spirits, tobacco and salt to Kent, taking goods like wool across the English Channel to France. On Saturday night, 28 August"
"the stationmaster at Strensall, he lived for a time in York where he was visited by his elder brother Charles in December 1847. His Micawber and family are no literary invention. Dickens found the prototype for this larger than life eccentric in York on one of his visits to see his younger brother. After Birkinshaw was appointed Consulting Engineer to the Malton and Driffield Junction Railway, authorised in 1846, the younger Dickens moved to Derwent Cottage, Norton, to be nearer to the work site and his office in the Market Place at Malton, from which he provided the local supervision"
"known as the Great Migration. The painter Thomas Gainsborough lived and worked in Ipswich. In 1835, Charles Dickens stayed in Ipswich and used it as a setting for scenes in his novel ""The Pickwick Papers"". The hotel where he resided first opened in 1518; it was then known as The Tavern and later became known as the Great White Horse Hotel. Dickens made the hotel famous in chapter XXII of ""The Pickwick Papers"", vividly describing the hotel's meandering corridors and stairs. The hotel now houses a branch of Cotswolds In 1797 Lord and Lady Nelson moved to Ipswich, and in"
"of the former Jacob's Island. The houses of the development were named after Dickens' characters but the only one to have lived, and died, on Jacob's Island, the murderous Bill Sikes, was not honoured. Jacob's Island was immortalised by Charles Dickens's novel ""Oliver Twist"", in which the principal villain Bill Sikes dies in the mud of 'Folly Ditch'. Dickens provides a vivid description of what it was like: ""... crazy wooden galleries common to the backs of half a dozen houses, with holes from which to look upon the slime beneath; windows, broken and patched, with poles thrust out, on"