"bankrupt Jellyby; Sir Leicester Dedlock's several cousins; and the Bagnet family, friends of the ex-soldier Sergeant George. The character of Clamb, clerk to the lawyer Tulkinghorn, was created by the screenwriter as a device for showing Tulkinghorn's motives and deeds without recourse to a narrator. Most of the storylines are portrayed substantially as they are in the novel, but somewhat abbreviated. The exceptions to this are in large part consequent to the aforementioned cull of minor characters. The plot mechanics around the possession of Lady Dedlock's letters, which involve Tony Jobling and Smallweed Junior in the novel, are considerably altered,"
"culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s. There is some debate among scholars as to when ""Bleak House"" is set. The English legal historian Sir William Holdsworth sets the action in 1827; however, reference to preparation for the building of a railway in Chapter LV suggests the 1830s. Sir Leicester Dedlock and his wife Honoria live on his estate at Chesney Wold. Unknown to Sir Leicester, before she married, Lady Dedlock had a lover, Captain Hawdon, and had a daughter by him. Lady Dedlock believes her daughter is dead. The daughter, Esther, is in fact alive and"
"the compensation to her — because he doesn't want to give a penny to Mrs Bardell's lawyers, the unscrupulous firm of Messrs. Dodson and Fogg. The generally humorous tone is here briefly replaced by biting social satire (including satire of the legal establishment). This foreshadows major themes in Dickens's later books. Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller, and Weller Senior also appear in Dickens's serial, ""Master Humphrey's Clock"". The novel has been adapted to film, television, and radio: In 1985 BBC released a 12-part 350-minute miniseries starring Nigel Stock, Alan Parnaby, Clive Swift and Patrick Malahide. According to Retrospect Opera, there was"
"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"
"the 1970s. In his book ""Private Peaceful"", the village is the home of the protagonist, Tommo, and it is one of the main settings for the book. In 1976 Morpurgo and his wife, Clare, set up the Farms for City Children charity which is based at Nethercott House in the parish. Poet Ted Hughes who lived nearby was a close friend and regular visitor to the Morpurgos and became the first president of the charity. Iddesleigh Iddesleigh is a village and civil parish in the county of Devon, England. The settlement has ancient origins and is listed in the ""Domesday"
"Lord Francis Powerscourt Lord Francis Powerscourt is a fictional Victorian-Edwardian detective created by the author David Dickinson who has appeared in fifteen novels. (see https://www.goodreads.com/series/42760-lord-francis-powerscourt) Powerscourt is descended from Irish aristocracy, his ancestral home is Powerscourt House in County Wicklow, Ireland. Powerscourt's parents both died of Influenza while he was a child. His first wife and son drowned when their ship sunk in the Irish Sea. Powerscourt later remarried to Lady Lucy Hamilton and fathered two children, Olivia and Thomas, as well as becoming step father to Robert, Lady Hamilton's son from her first marriage. Twins Christopher and Elizabeth (known"
"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."
"in Charles Dickens' novel ""Bleak House"" (also identified only by title), presiding over the interminable chancery case of ""Jarndyce and Jarndyce"". Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels feature a number of references to fictitious Lord Chancellors. The Liberal Lord Weazeling holds the office in the Liberal governments of Mildmay and Gresham in ""Phineas Finn"" and ""Phineas Redux""; the Conservative Lord Ramsden holds the position in the Duke of Omnium's coalition government in ""The Prime Minister"". In Gresham's final government at the end of ""The Prime Minister"", the former Liberal Attorney General, Sir Gregory Grogram, is finally given the position, which he had"
"the twins kicks Tom because he made a joke about him at a town meeting. As a result, Tom's uncle Judge Driscoll challenges Luigi Capello to a duel. Wilson is a lawyer who came to Dawson's Landing to practice law, but was unable to succeed at his law practice after alienating the locals. He establishes a comfortable life in the town, working as a bookkeeper and pursuing his hobby of collecting fingerprints. Although the title character, he remains in the background of the novel until the final chapters. Each chapter begins with clever quotations from Pudd’nhead Wilson’s ""Calendar"", a project"
"years there. He did not consider it to be a good school: ""Much of the haphazard, desultory teaching, poor discipline punctuated by the headmaster's sadistic brutality, the seedy ushers and general run-down atmosphere, are embodied in Mr. Creakle's Establishment in ""David Copperfield""."" Dickens worked at the law office of Ellis and Blackmore, attorneys, of Holborn Court, Gray's Inn, as a junior clerk from May 1827 to November 1828. He was a gifted mimic and impersonated those around him: clients, lawyers, and clerks. He went to theatres obsessively—he claimed that for at least three years he went to the theatre every"
"A Dark Night's Work A Dark Night's Work is an 1863 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published serially in Charles Dickens's magazine ""All the Year Round"". The word ""dark"" was added to the original title by Dickens against Gaskell's wishes. Dickens felt that the altered title would be more striking. The story centers on a country lawyer, Edward Wilkins, and his daughter Ellinor. Edward has an artistic and literary personality, unsuited to his social position as the son of a successful lawyer who takes over his father's practice in the provincial town of Hamley. His legal representation of"
"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"
"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."
"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,"
"taken a shot at law-courts and that side of the legal profession in his 1837 novel ""The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club"" or ""The Pickwick Papers""). Scholars – such as the English legal historian Sir William Searle Holdsworth, in his 1928 series of lectures ""Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian"" published by Yale University Press – have made a plausible case for treating Dickens's novels, and ""Bleak House"" in particular, as primary sources illuminating the history of English law. Dickens claimed in the preface to the book edition of ""Bleak House"" that he had ""purposely dwelt upon the romantic"
"plot was ""skilfully handled"". Marshall's five books were all historical novels published by D. Appleton & Company. The first four were illustrated by J. Scott Williams. When Saxon yeoman Cedric of Pellham Woods saves the life of Norman nobleman Dickon Mountjoy, he is made a squire, and a friendship begins between the two. Eventually Cedric becomes the best crossbowman in England, and is knighted. He then becomes instrumental in the establishment of the Magna Carta. The frequency of deaths in ""Cedric the Forester"" sometimes drew criticism. In 1922 Marshall was one runner-up for the inaugural Newbery Medal from the professional"
"Cedric Charles Dickens Cedric David Charles Dickens (24 September 1916 – 11 February 2006) was an English author and businessman, and the last surviving great-grandson of Charles Dickens and steward of his literary legacy. Cedric ""Ceddy"" Dickens was the son of Philip ""Pip"" Charles Dickens (1887–1964), a chartered accountant and the first secretary of ICI. He was the grandson of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, the sixth of Dicken’s ten children, a Common Serjeant of London, and the nephew of Admiral Sir Gerald Charles Dickens. He attended Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating in Law in 1935. Following three trips to"
"at Mr Gibson's boarding school in Boulogne-sur-Mer, along with his brothers Alfred and Sydney. He became the only one of Dickens's seven sons to attend university. He attended Trinity Hall, Cambridge from 1868, graduating BA in Mathematics (29th Wrangler) in 1872 before studying Law at the university. Of that period at Cambridge, Dickens later wrote: ""Looking back now upon the years that are gone, I find that there are one or two scenes or incidents which arise with astonishing vividness to my mind that may be worth recording...I hope it will not be thought that I tell this story vaingloriously,"
"Many times his friends had to come to his aid in smoothing the ruffled feathers of his opponents or in encouraging him to moderate his behaviour. His friends were equally active in the desperate attempts to get his work published, where he offended or felt cheated by a succession of publishers who found his work either unsellable or unpublishable. He was repeatedly involved in legal disputes with his neighbours whether in England or Italy and Dickens' characterisation of him in ""Bleak House"" revolves around such a dispute over a gate between Boythorn and Sir Leicester Dedlock. Fate dealt with him"
"the Thellusson Will case provided the basis for the fictional case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House. Thelluson may also be the inspiration for Tellsons Bank mention in ""A Tale of Two Cities"". As a result of the case, legislation, commonly known as the Thellusson Act, was passed to prevent such problems in the future. Peter Thellusson Peter [de] Thellusson (27 June 1737 — 21 July 1797) was a Swiss businessman and banker who settled in London. Thellusson was a member of a Huguenot family which had fled France for Geneva in the 16th century. His"
"immortalised as the ""Cheeryble Brothers"" in Charles Dickens' book, Nicholas Nickleby. Donald's mother was the sister of the Canadian explorer John Stuart, partner of the North West Company who rose to become Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company. Smith was educated at Anderson's Free School and on leaving at age sixteen he was apprenticed to become a lawyer in the offices of Robert Watson, Town Clerk of Forres. By the age of eighteen, Smith chose another career path: offered entry into mercantile life at Manchester, and a career in the Indian Civil Service, his choice was to pattern himself"
"Dickens is also critical of the lack of a social safety net, the treatment and safety of industrial workers, as well the bureaucracy of the British Treasury, in the form of his fictional ""Circumlocution Office"". In addition he satirises the stratification of society that results from the British class system. The novel begins in Marseilles ""thirty years ago"" (c. 1826), with the notorious murderer Rigaud telling his cellmate John Baptiste Cavalletto how he killed his wife. Arthur Clennam is detained in Marseilles with a group of travellers in quarantine. He meets new friends in the quarantine. He is returning to"
"Mr Dacres, James Pearson's solicitor, tells Emily that things look much worse than they already imagined. James has ""borrowed"" money from his firm to speculate in stocks without the knowledge of the firm. There are several red herrings. Brian Pearson came under suspicion when Enderby discovered him making a late-night rendezvous with Violet Willett; he is Violet's fiancé. He was not in Australia but had returned to England on the same boat with the Willetts. The Willetts' motive for moving into the isolated Sittaford house had no connection with Captain Trevelyan. They wanted to live close to Dartmoor Prison, where"
"the film bears a resemblance to the illustrations in the book. However, the novel ""The Dragon and the George"" by Gordon R. Dickson was the inspiration for the film's plot. One of the main characters is Peter Dickinson, the book's author himself struggling to complete his text. Peter Dickinson Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (16 December 1927 – 16 December 2015) was an English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories. Dickinson won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for both ""Tulku"" (1979) and ""City of Gold"" (1980), each being recognised as"
"the lower reaches of the Thames, all aspects of the capital are described over the course of his body of work. Authors frequently draw their portraits of characters from people they have known in real life. ""David Copperfield"" is regarded by many as a veiled autobiography of Dickens. The scenes of interminable court cases and legal arguments in ""Bleak House"" reflect Dickens's experiences as a law clerk and court reporter, and in particular his direct experience of the law's procedural delay during 1844 when he sued publishers in Chancery for breach of copyright. Dickens's father was sent to prison for"
"Thomas Dixon Jr. Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was a Southern Baptist minister, playwright, lecturer, politician, lawyer, and author who wrote two early 20th-century novels, ""The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden – 1865–1900"" (1902) and ""The Clansman"" (1905), that glorified the Ku Klux Klan's vigilantes, romanticized Southern white supremacy, and opposed the equal rights for blacks during the Reconstruction era. Film director D. W. Griffith adapted ""The Clansman"" for the screen in ""The Birth of a Nation"" (1915), which stimulated the formation of the 20th-century version of the Klan. Dixon"
"""magnetic, repugnant rituals of Buddhism"" and develops as a ""whole, willing Christian"". Mrs Jones is recruited to remain on site and the boy finally returns to England with the fruit of her botanical expedition. The themes of ""Tulku"" are the intertwining of religion and politics, the nature of personal belief, and how far belief can coexist with cynicism. Thus it is similar to Dickinson's earlier novel ""The Blue Hawk"" (Gollancz, 1977), for which he won the once-in-a-lifetime Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Tibetan Buddhism Tulku (novel) Tulku is a children's historical novel by Peter Dickinson, published by Gollancz in 1979. Set"
"Captain George North. He alludes to the time gap between the serialisation and the publication as one volume in 1888 in his preface ""Critic [parodying Dickens's 'Cricket'] on the Hearth"": ""The tale was written years ago for a particular audience..."" The Paston Letters were Stevenson's main literary source for ""The Black Arrow"". ""The Black Arrow"" tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton. Outlaws in Tunstall Forest organised by Ellis Duckworth, whose weapon"
"Eddie Dickens Eddie Dickens is the lead character in six books by British author Philip Ardagh: and a number of Christmas short-stories specially written for Philip Ardagh's website. The character first appeared in print in the UK in 2000, but originally as a character in letters from Philip Ardagh to his young nephew Ben, who lived in Moscow at the time. Eddie's adventures have been translated into over 30 languages. The son of Laudanum and Florinda Dickens (referred to as Mr and Mrs Dickens throughout), Eddie is usually a victim of circumstances in a Victorian world populated by absurd relatives,"
"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"
"was completed but she was buried in Bournemouth, in accordance with her wishes. The family plot in St Peter's churchyard also contains her parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and the heart of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote ""The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" and most of his novel ""Kidnapped"" from his house ""Skerryvore"" on the west cliff, Westbourne. Vladimir Chertkov established a Tolstoyan publishing house with other Russian exiles at Tuckton, and under the 'Free Age Press' imprint, published the first edition of several works by Leo Tolstoy. Author Bill Bryson worked"
"Charles Dickinson (historical figure) Charles Dickinson (1780 – May 30, 1806) was an American attorney, and a famous duelist. An expert marksman, Dickinson died from injuries sustained in a duel with Andrew Jackson, who later became President of the United States. Dickinson was born at Wiltshire Manor in Caroline County, Maryland, the son of Elizabeth Walker and Henry Dickinson, the grandson of Sophia Richardson and Charles Dickinson (1695–1795), and the great-grandson of Rebecca Wynne (daughter of Dr. Thomas Wynne) and John Dickinson. He studied law under U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, who wrote formal letters of introduction and recommendation for"
"line to the works of Charles Dickens in England, particularly his 1838 work ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (which featured a similar storyline), and the 1844 novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"", which also featured criticisms of class society in the United States. The story centres on the wealthy and prosperous Harley family, consisting of: Frank (the father), Gazella (the mother), and their nine children. After a series of bad investments results in bankruptcy, the Harleys are forced into destitution, which in turn leads to Frank's untimely death from excessive drinking. Gazella continues life as a seamstress in order to provide for her children, two of"