"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"
"wrongly that Micawber's debts arise from dishonesty. But working for Heep allows Micawber to expose his boss as a forger and a cheat. To start anew, Micawber and his family emigrate to Australia with Daniel Peggotty and Little Em'ly, where Micawber becomes manager of the Port Middlebay Bank and a successful government magistrate. In Hablot Knight Browne's illustrations for the first edition, Micawber is shown wearing knee-breeches, a top hat, and a monocle. Micawber was modelled on Dickens' father, John Dickens. Micawber is known for asserting his faith that ""something will turn up."" His name has become synonymous with someone"
"Richards is known to be a fan of Dickens. Of the unusual moniker attached to the instrument, Richards said, ""There's no reason for my guitar being called Micawber, apart from the fact that it's such an unlikely name. There's no one around me called Micawber, so when I scream for Micawber everyone knows what I'm talking about."" In addition, the character formed the basis of ""Micawber"", a 2001 ITV drama series written by John Sullivan and starring David Jason in the title leading role. In the U.S. Supreme Court opinion of Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 562"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Mary Mulshaw, a young heiress who brought with her Gayhurst House in Buckinghamshire. By all accounts their marriage was a happy one, and they had two sons; Kenelm was born in 1603 at Gayhurst, and John in 1605. Unlike other English Catholics, Digby had little first-hand experience of England's recusancy laws. Following the death of his father he had been made a ward of Chancery and was raised in a Protestant household. His wife Mary was converted to Catholicism by the Jesuit priest John Gerard. When Digby fell seriously ill, Gerard used the occasion to convert him also, and the"
"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"
"to Freddie Bartholomew after an extensive talent search in Canada and Great Britain by Selznick and George Cukor. Cedric Gibbons designed a recreation of 19th century London on the MGM backlot. The scenes set outside Aunt Betsey's house atop the white cliffs of Dover were filmed at Malibu. MGM even filmed the exterior of Canterbury Cathedral, which only appears in the film for less than a minute. Special effects, including many matte shots, were by Slavko Vorkapić. Charles Laughton was originally cast in the role of Mr. Micawber, and was authentically made-up with a bald cap, since Dickens describes the"
"Ebenezer Scrooge Ebenezer Scrooge () is the protagonist of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella, ""A Christmas Carol"". At the beginning of the novella, Scrooge is a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas. Dickens describes him thus: ""The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice."" His last name has come into the English language as a byword for miserliness and misanthropy. The tale of his redemption by the three Ghosts of Christmas (Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost"
"who lives in hopeful expectation. This has formed the basis for the Micawber Principle, based upon his observation in Chapter 12: The amounts quoted are equivalent to £20, £19 97½p and £20 2½p, in the United Kingdom's present currency. The character was played by W.C. Fields in the 1935 screen classic, ""Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger"". Bob Hoskins took the role in a 1999 BBC serial. Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones named one of his guitars (an early 1950s Fender Telecaster with a Gibson PAF humbucking pickup installed in the neck position) ""Micawber."""
"landlord, Wilkins Micawber, is arrested for debt and sent to the King's Bench Prison, where he remains for several months, before being released and moving to Plymouth. No one remains to care for David in London, so he decides to run away. He walks from London to Dover, to his only relative, his eccentric yet kind-hearted great-aunt Betsey Trotwood. She had come to Blunderstone at his birth, only to depart in ire upon learning that he was not a girl. However, she takes pity on him and agrees to raise him, despite Murdstone's attempt to regain custody of David, on"
"undo his mental conditioning. Bendt Micawber (the CEO of Acme Corporation and the descendant of Mr. Micawber from ""David Copperfield"") cites his survival as dereliction of duty. Receiving a plastic prosthetic leg as well as his pension as compensation, Greatheart is fired from Acme. During his recovery, Greatheart's fiancee breaks up with him and his Sioux grandmother sends him a birdcage with two ravens inside. He names them Huginn and Muninn after the Norse god Odin's all-seeing ravens. Using his skills with computers to alter his records and receive a glowing reference from Micawber, Greatheart is soon employed by the"
"""scrooge"", for example, is a miser – or someone who dislikes Christmas festivity. His characters were often so memorable that they took on a life of their own outside his books. ""Gamp"" became a slang expression for an umbrella from the character Mrs Gamp, and ""Pickwickian"", ""Pecksniffian"", and ""Gradgrind"" all entered dictionaries due to Dickens's original portraits of such characters who were, respectively, quixotic, hypocritical, and vapidly factual. Many were drawn from real life: Mrs Nickleby is based on his mother, though she didn't recognise herself in the portrait, just as Mr Micawber is constructed from aspects of his father's"
"of the poem, Pope crowned Cibber King of Dunces. From being merely one symptom of the artistic decay of Britain, he was transformed into the demigod of stupidity, the true son of the goddess Dulness. Apart from the personal quarrel, Pope had reasons of literary appropriateness for letting Cibber take the place of his first choice of King, Lewis Theobald. Theobald, who had embarrassed Pope by contrasting Pope's impressionistic Shakespeare edition (1725) with Theobald's own scholarly edition (1726), also wrote Whig propaganda for hire, as well as dramatic productions which were to Pope abominations for their mixing of tragedy and"
"story in the sense that it violates a Christian taboo. The taboo has to do with the assigned place of men in the natural and divine chain of being. However, the New Testament theme of transmutation (from the ceremony of the eucharist where bread and wine represents the flesh and blood of Christ) might be the dominant one. This is a common theme in Dick's work, here carrying his characteristic gnostic twist where the transmutation goes awry under the hand of lesser divinity (the angels—in this tale they are ignorant and capricious, in many of Dick's works, especially the later"
"its spelling variants Jumgumjenanuke and Jungunjinuke, he was also known as King Billy, King Dick and Kennedy (in honour of an Edenhope policeman he admired). His descendants adopted Kennedy as their surname. He died at the mission on 3 September 1870. While in Warrnambool in 1867, Dick-a-Dick was introduced to Christianity by Lawrence and appeared strongly affected by the life of Jesus. He was not worried about the trip to England as he knew the captain had prayed for a safe arrival. Just before his death, he confessed his faith in Christianity and was baptised on 30 July 1870. Minutes"
"leads the people in peace and prosperity, until he is murdered by agents of Ptolemy, son of Abubus, who had been named governor of the region by the Macedonian Greeks. He is succeeded by his son, John Hyrcanus. The name ""Maccabee"" in Hebrew, means ""hammer"". This is properly applied to the first leader of the revolt, Judas, third son of Mattathias, whose attacks were ""hammer-like"". The name came to be used for his brothers as well, which accounts for the title of the book. The Name ""Maccabee"" can also be derived from the first letters of each word מי כמוכה"
"Crimean War and wrote letters home to her from his posting in India with the Madras Cavalry. His son was also named James Brander Dunbar and wrote """"first-hand accounts of schooling at Dalvreck and Rugby, big game hunting in Africa, the second Boer War and the Siege of Kimberley, the Great War, the home guard in Moray in WWII, entanglement with bureaucracy and the life and times of the Pitgaveny estate and its laird for the greater part of the twentieth century."""" His exploits inspired John Buchan's novel ""John Macnab"". William Alexander Stables William Alexander Stables (1810 – 21 June"
"exploration of the conflicts between Christ and secularism in America. He says, for example, the surname ""Tarwater"" is completely understood only by focusing on Irish culture and history. One possible reading of the novel offers cautionary tale about religious anti-intellectualism. Old Mason Tarwater epitomizes faith coupled with anti-intellectualism and spiritual pride, which brings about the whole series of unfortunate events depicted in the book. Rayber is basically moral person, but abashed by closed-minded and anti-intellectual approach to religion infused in childhood he is drawn towards atheism. Had he actually employed his efforts to find rational reasons for Christian faith, he"
"character Machiavel, a Senecan ghost based on Niccolò Machiavelli, introducing ""the tragedy of a Jew."" Machiavel expresses the cynical view that power is amoral, saying ""I count religion but a childish toy, / And hold there is no sin but ignorance."" Barabas begins the play in his counting-house. Stripped of all he has for protesting the Governor of Malta's seizure of the wealth of the country's whole Jewish population to pay off the warring Turks, he develops a murderous streak by, with the help of his slave Ithamore, tricking the Governor's son and his friend into fighting over the affections"
"wrote them incorrectly through negligence; however, it is later revealed he was drugged by his father-in-law who deliberately altered the numbers on Micawber's accounts to frame him. The rest of the series follows Micawber attempting a series of different careers. These include working for a newspaper and later as butler until the lady of the house seduces him and he is challenged to a duel by her husband. Micawber escapes this by faking his own death. In a subplot, the Micawbers adopt a now orphaned workhouse girl, Alice, despite struggling to support their own family. However, this virtue is rewarded"
"upon in his penultimate book ""Ararat Associations"", in which he notes how his parents were keen for their children to have an English education, yet made sure that they spoke Armenian at home. He was christened by Bishop Tourian in the Armenian Church in Manchester, and his first name Dikran was shortened to Dick, but he never forgot his Armenian roots. In his childhood, he would visit relatives in Constantinople every other year. Some of these are reflected on in his book ""Ararat Associations"", in which he remembers ""my father, who would be standing, like the other males, with open"
"Edward Dickens Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens (13 March 1852 – 23 January 1902) was the youngest son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. He immigrated to Australia at the age of 16, and eventually entered politics, serving as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1889 to 1894. He died in poverty at the age of 49. Nicknamed ""Plorn"", Dickens was clearly named after Edward Bulwer-Lytton — nowadays much satirised for the famous opening line of his 1830 novel ""Paul Clifford"", ""It was a dark and stormy night"" — and educated at Tunbridge Wells"
"struggle. That Dickens framed this relationship with Christmas seems to suggest the immense need for decreasing the distance between English social strata. The proximity of the Christmas spirit to the issue of social strata lends a sense of community to Dickens' message, urging the well-to-do upper class to consider the dependent poor, especially during the holiday, but year-round as well. In early drafts, the character's name was ""Little Fred"". It has been claimed that the character is based on the son of a friend of Dickens who owned a cotton mill in Ardwick, Manchester. However, Dickens had two younger brothers"
"As the events unfold, Bradley falls in love with Eleanor Mowbray but she is in love with her cousin, Ranulph Rookwood. At his grandfather's promptings, Bradley ditches his love, a gypsy named Sybil Lovel, to pursue and try to force Mowbray into marriage. While this happens, the character Dick Turpin, a highwayman and thief, is introduced at the manor, under the pseudonym Palmer. While there, he makes a bet with one of the guests that he could capture himself. Eventually, Turpin is forced to escape upon his horse, Black Bess. The horse, though fast enough to keep ahead of all"
"Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (28 October 1845 – 2 January 1912) was the sixth child and fourth son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. He made lecture tours in Australia, Europe and the United States on his father's life and work. Nicknamed ""Sampson Brass"" and ""Skittles"" by his father, Alfred Dickens was born at 1 Devonshire Terrace in London, and was baptized at the church of St. Mary Marylebone in London on 21 April 1846. He was named after his godfathers, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Count Alfred D'Orsay. Because of this choice of"
"murderous cruelty of the man who has been held up to him as a model. In the tradition of Restoration Comedy and Henry Fielding, Dickens fits his characters with appropriate names. Oliver himself, though ""badged and ticketed"" as a lowly orphan and named according to an alphabetical system, is, in fact, ""all of a twist."" However, Oliver and his name may have been based on a young workhouse boy named Peter Tolliver whom Dickens knew while growing up. Mr. Grimwig is so called because his seemingly ""grim"", pessimistic outlook is actually a protective cover for his kind, sentimental soul. Other"
"bishops and archdeacons. The title itself, however, is a reference to a well-known phrase from Charles Dickens' 1839 novel ""Nicholas Nickleby"", later used by P. G. Wodehouse and by Powell and Pressburger (spoken in the film ""The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp""), although it had at that time a different meaning. The bishop was easygoing; his friend the archdeacon was elderly, tippling, and still appreciative of attractive women; and the bishop's chaplain was naïve and accident-prone. Their wish to live a quiet bachelor life was continually threatened by the overbearing dean, who tried to bring by-the-book rule to the"
"has been the main London home of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, an African Initiated Church based in Nigeria and led by Olumba Olumba Obu, who followers describe as ""the sole spiritual head of the universe"". Worshippers wear distinctive white robes known as ""soutane"", with women also wearing a wimple-like headdress. The narrow public garden from here to Harper Road is called David Copperfields Garden. A plaque placed on a plinth in the garden in September 1931 by the Dickens Fellowship explained that this was the place where in the Charles Dickens novel, ""David Copperfield"" stopped ""in the"
"where he saw—and was affected by seeing—fettered prisoners. For the character Tiny Tim, Dickens used his nephew Henry, a disabled boy who was five at the time ""A Christmas Carol"" was written. The two figures of Want and Ignorance, sheltering in the robes of the Ghost of Christmas Present, were inspired by the children Dickens had seen on his visit to a ragged school in the East End of London. The transformation of Scrooge is central to the story. Davis considers Scrooge to be ""a protean figure always in process of reformation""; Kelly writes that the transformation is reflected in"
"and his appropriate use of Yiddish words. McCann is an unfrocked priest and has two names. Petey refers to him as Dermot but Goldberg calls him Seamus. The sarcasm in the following exchange evokes some distance in their relationship: McCANN: You've always been a true Christian GOLDBERG: In a way. Stanley Webber — ""a palpably Jewish name, incidentally — is a man who shores up his precarious sense of self through fantasy, bluff, violence and his own manipulative form of power-play. His treatment of Meg initially is rough, playful, teasing, ... but once she makes the fateful, mood-changing revelation —'I've"
"Augustus Dickens Augustus Newnham Dickens (10 November 1827 – 4 October 1866) was the youngest brother of English novelist Charles Dickens, and the inspiration for Charles's pen name 'Boz'. Augustus Dickens was the son of Elizabeth (""née"" Barrow) and John Dickens, a clerk in the Navy Pay Office at Portsmouth. Charles Dickens's pen name, 'Boz', was actually taken from his youngest brother's family nickname 'Moses', given to him in honour of one of the brothers in ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (one of the most widely read novels in the early 19th century), which when playfully pronounced through the nose became"