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Samuel Pickwick is a fictional character and the main protagonist in The Pickwick Papers (1836), the first novel by author Charles Dickens.One of the author's most famous and loved creations, [1] Pickwick is a retired successful businessman and is the founder and chairman of the Pickwick Club, [2] a club formed to explore places remote from London and investigate the quaint and curious ...
Mr Wardle (A fine old English Gentleman, friend of Pickwick) - Mr George Cooke [15] Mr Nupkins, Esq., (Mayor of Ipswich) - Mr Chicheley; Mr Leo Hunter - Mr Nicholson; Alfred Jingle, Esq., (A walking Gentleman, living on his wits) - Mr John Lee; Mr Samuel Weller (the faithful attendant of Mr Pickwick) - Mr W. J. Hammond; Mr Weller, sen. (A long ...
Nathaniel Winkle is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's first novel, The Pickwick Papers (1836). A founder and younger member of the Pickwick Club created by the retired businessman Samuel Pickwick, Winkle is a young friend of Pickwick's and, with Augustus Snodgrass and Tracy Tupman, his travelling companion. Although a city dweller ...
Wardle, Isabella Mr Wardle's daughter who marries Trundle in The Pickwick Papers. Wardle, Mr Yeoman farmer and owner of Manor Farm at Dingley Dell in The Pickwick Papers. Pickwick and his friends visit Manor Farm frequently. Wardle, Old Mrs Mr Wardle's partially deaf mother in The Pickwick Papers. Wardle, Rachael Mr Wardle's spinster sister ...
Mrs. Bardell faints in Mr. Pickwick's arms – illustration by Hablot Knight Browne (1837). When Pickwick discusses with Mrs Bardell his idea of taking a servant (), expressing the view that three may eat as cheaply as two, she mistakes this for a marriage proposal and accepting his 'offer', much to his dismay, faints into his arms, possibly deliberately, as his three friends Winkle, Snodgrass ...
Pickwick, Sam Weller and his father Tony Weller briefly reappeared in 1840, in the magazine Master Humphrey's Clock. Master Humphrey's Clock is the name of a literary club founded by Mr Humphrey, whose members read out stories to the others. [10] Pickwick is a member, and there is a mirror club in the kitchen, Mr. Weller's Watch, run by Sam Weller.
Dickens describes him in Chapter One of The Pickwick Papers. On Mr Pickwick's right sat Mr Tracy Tupman. This Mr Tupman had the wisdom and experience of mature years but added to this was the enthusiasm and strong emotions of a boy, because Mr Tupman suffered from the most interesting and pardonable of human weaknesses - love.
After graduating from high school in 1955, Worley moved to Blauvelt, New York, where she began her professional career as a member of the Pickwick Players. [2] This led to a drama scholarship to Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas .