"the author to portray the United States (which he had visited in 1842) satirically as a near wilderness with pockets of civilisation filled with deceptive and self-promoting hucksters. The main theme of the novel, according to a preface by Dickens, is selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. The novel is also notable for two of Dickens' great villains, Seth Pecksniff and Jonas Chuzzlewit. It is dedicated to Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, a friend of Dickens. Martin Chuzzlewit has been raised by his grandfather and namesake. Years before, Martin senior took the precaution of"
"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"
"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,"
"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, often a type of proverb. In chapter 10 of the novel, the eponymous hero Mr. Pickwick meets Sam Weller working at the White Hart Inn in The Borough and soon takes him on"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"the house. The success of ""Sketches by Boz"" led to a proposal from publishers Chapman and Hall for Dickens to supply text to match Robert Seymour's engraved illustrations in a monthly letterpress. Seymour committed suicide after the second instalment, and Dickens, who wanted to write a connected series of sketches, hired ""Phiz"" to provide the engravings (which were reduced from four to two per instalment) for the story. The resulting story became ""The Pickwick Papers"", and though the first few episodes were not successful, the introduction of the Cockney character Sam Weller in the fourth episode (the first to be"
"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,"
"and Birch. Sizemore is reportedly still interested in the project. Snuff (Palahniuk novel) Snuff is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk that was released on May 20, 2008. Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication on camera, with six hundred men. ""Snuff"" unfolds through the perspectives of Mr. 600, Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Wright's personal assistant, Sheila. With his satirical narrative and thorough research, Chuck Palahniuk reveals through these four characters the little-known facts and histories of not only pornography and sexual deviance, but also acting and life in"
"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"
"a story. In episode 3, the ghost of Tolly's ancestral namesake (nicknamed ""Toby"") tells Tolly he and (the ghost of) his brother Alexander had joined Granny and Tolly during storytime the previous night, explaining: ""I was in the inglenook; Alexander was in your chair"". In the second novel, ""The Chimneys of Green Knowe"" (1958), and its film adaptation by Julian Fellowes, ""From Time to Time"" (2009), the chimneys themselves play important roles. Perhaps the most famous reference to an inglenook in literature occurs in the final line of John Betjeman's short poem 'In a Bath Teashop', where it has been"
"""Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays"". A scholarly, annotated edition of the original 1846–47 serial was published in volume form in 2007 by the Oxford University Press under the title of ""Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"", edited by Robert Mack. The original story of Sweeney Todd quite possibly stems from an older urban legend, originally based on dubious pie-fillings. In Charles Dickens' ""Pickwick Papers"" (1836–37), the servant Sam Weller says that a pieman used cats ""for beefsteak, veal and kidney, 'cording to the demand"", and recommends that people should buy pies only ""when you know the lady as"
"bit."" In cinema, the CGI movie ""Barbie in a Christmas Carol"" features a snooty cat named Chuzzlewit who is the pet of Barbie's character Eden Starling. John Travolta's character quotes from the novel in ""A Love Song for Bobby Long"". The novel features prominently in Jasper Fforde's novel ""The Eyre Affair"". Martin Chuzzlewit The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised between 1842 and 1844. While writing it Dickens told a friend that he thought it his best work,"
"Watchers; England's Navy During the Great War; What It Is, and What We Owe to It"". (1918) Kitchin wrote ""The Diversions of Dawson: a novel"" using his own name. Under the pseudonym of Bennet Copplestone, he wrote a number of adventures including ""The Lost Naval Papers"" (1917), ""The Last of the Grenvilles"" (1919), ""Madame Gilbert's Cannibal"" (1920), ""The Treasure of Golden Cap"" (1922) and ""Dead Men's Tales"" (1926) Kitchin set many of his stories in and around North Devon, Lundy Island and the Dorset town of Bridport. The family of Sir Richard Grenville features heavily in his writing. Frederick Harcourt"
"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"
"Snuff (Pratchett novel) Snuff is the 39th novel in the ""Discworld"" series, written by Terry Pratchett. It was published on 11 October 2011 in the United States, and 13 October 2011 in the United Kingdom. The book is the third-fastest-selling novel in the United Kingdom since records began, having sold over 55,000 copies in the first three days. The book is the eighth City Watch story and is based largely around Commander Sir Sam Vimes. Pratchett emphasised that the word 'snuff' has ""at least two meanings"". Commander Sam Vimes is forced by his wife, Lady Sybil, to take a holiday"
"Snuff (Palahniuk novel) Snuff is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk that was released on May 20, 2008. Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication on camera, with six hundred men. ""Snuff"" unfolds through the perspectives of Mr. 600, Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Wright's personal assistant, Sheila. With his satirical narrative and thorough research, Chuck Palahniuk reveals through these four characters the little-known facts and histories of not only pornography and sexual deviance, but also acting and life in and out of the spotlight, and throughout the novel shows"
"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"
"telling each other ""interminable tales of knight-errantry and battles and enchantments."" Arthur's Seat has a passing mention as one of the sights of Edinburgh in the novel ""Frankenstein"" by Mary Shelley. The 2009 novel ""One Day"" by David Nicholls begins and ends with the main characters, Emma and Dexter, climbing Arthur's Seat after their graduation from university. Arthur's Seat is shown at the end of the 2011 film ""One Day"", which was based on the novel. In Jules Verne's novel, ""The Underground City"" (or, ""The Child of the Cavern""), Nell, a young girl who is an inhabitant of Verne's Underground"
"situated in Derbyshire. In that novel, Chatsworth House in Derbyshire is named as one of the estates Elizabeth Bennet visits before arriving at Pemberley. In the 2005 film adaptation of the novel, Chatsworth House itself represents Pemberley. In one scene characters discuss visits to Matlock and Dovedale. Sir Walter Scott's 1823 novel ""Peveril of the Peak"" is partly set in Derbyshire. The events of the play ""Arcadia"", by Tom Stoppard, take place in the fictional country house of Sidley Park in Derbyshire. Alfreton is mentioned in the novel ""Sons and Lovers"" by D. H. Lawrence, when a character gets a"
"The Pickwick Papers The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens's first novel. He was asked to contribute to the project as an up-and-coming writer following the success of ""Sketches by Boz"", published in 1836 (most of Dickens' novels were issued in shilling instalments before being published as complete volumes). Dickens (still writing under the pseudonym of Boz) increasingly took over the unsuccessful monthly publication after the original illustrator Robert Seymour had committed suicide. With the introduction of Sam Weller in chapter 10, the book became the first real publishing phenomenon, with"
"Chesham, Buckinghamshire, the Furthest Station on the Metropolitan Line. The Furthest Station The Furthest Station is the latest novella in the Peter Grant series by English author Ben Aaronovitch. The novella is set after the fifth (Foxglove Summer) but before the sixth (The Hanging Tree) novel in the series. Teaming up with BTP Sergeant Jaget Kumar, his young cousin Abigail Kamara, Inspector Nightingale and Toby the ghost hunting dog, PC Peter Grant tackles the mystery of ghostly encounters on the Metropolitan Line. Weirder still, the witnesses forget about their experiences mere minutes after they've occurred. As the mystery unravels, Grant"
"Nicholas Nickleby Nicholas Nickleby; or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens. Originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839, it was Dickens's third novel. The novel centres on the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies. ""Nicholas Nickleby"" is Charles Dickens's third published novel. He returned to his favourite publishers and to the format that was considered so successful with ""The Pickwick Papers"". The story first appeared in monthly parts, after which it was issued in one volume. The"
"Samuel Pickwick Samuel Pickwick is a fictional character and the main protagonist in ""The Pickwick Papers"" (1836), the first novel by author Charles Dickens. Pickwick is a retired successful businessman and is the Founder and Chairman of the Pickwick Club. Believed to have been named after the British businessman Eleazer Pickwick (c.1749–1837), although he is the main character in ""The Pickwick Papers"" Samuel Pickwick is mostly a passive and innocent figure in the story around whom the other more active characters operate. Having an almost childlike simplicity, Pickwick is loyal and protective toward his friends but is often hoodwinked by"
"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"
"both mild and bitter beer from the same barrel. Two holes were made and she was left with one thumb rammed against one and the other jammed into the other; the trickster then made off. In literature Jeanie Deans of Sir Walter Scott's novel ""The Heart of Midlothian"" travels through several communities on the Great North Road on her way to London. The road features in ""The Pickwick Papers"" by Charles Dickens. Part of the J. B. Priestley novel ""The Good Companions"" mentions the road which represented to northerner Jess Oakroyd, as the gateway to such exotic destinations as Nottingham."
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"1982 Richard appeared in Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"" at the Donmar Warehouse in London with Ian McKellen, Edward Petherbridge and Edward Hardwicke. For the Royal Shakespeare Company Richard appeared in Chekhov's ""The Three Sisters"" (April 1980) at the Donmar Warehouse with Roger Rees, Edward Petherbridge, Bob Peck and Timothy Spall; and as Kate Nickleby in ""The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"" (November 1980) at the Aldwych Theatre, an epic eight-hour stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel ""Nicholas Nickleby"" with Roger Rees, Timothy Spall, John Woodvine, Edward Petherbridge, Ben Kingsley, Fulton Mackay, David Threlfall, Bob Peck, Rose Hill and Christopher Benjamin."