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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel by English author Charles Dickens.His previous work was Sketches by Boz, published in 1836, and his publisher Chapman & Hall asked Dickens to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour, [1] and to connect them into a novel.
Orson Welles played Mr. Jingle in the Mercury Theatre on the Air production of The Pickwick Papers in 1938. In the 1952 film The Pickwick Papers he was played by Nigel Patrick, while in the TV musical Pickwick for the BBC in 1969 Jingle was played by Aubrey Woods. Patrick Malahide played Mr. Jingle in 1985 for the BBC's The Pickwick Papers.
Tony Weller is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's first novel, The Pickwick Papers (1836). The irresponsible and care-free Tony Weller is Sam Weller 's father. A loquacious coachman, the character never became as popular as his famous son but readers have always enjoyed his quaint humour and his even quainter philosophy.
Back in 2006, he devoted two solid hours to the subject on his Theme Time Radio Hour show, playing an assortment of his favourite festive tunes, reading from Dickens’s The Pickwick Papers and ...
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 ...
It is mentioned at least 20 times [2] in the 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, who frequently drank there himself. The George and Vulture has been the headquarters of the City Pickwick Club since its foundation. [3] When it was threatened with demolition, Cedric Charles Dickens, the author's great-grandson, campaigned to save ...
Robert Seymour (1798 – 20 April 1836) was a British illustrator known for his illustrations for The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens and for his caricatures. He committed suicide after arguing with Dickens over the illustrations for Pickwick.
Mrs Bardell (Pickwick Papers), a fictional landlady in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers (1836/37) Mrs Bardell, a fictional landlady of Sexton Blake , created by William Murray Graydon in 1905 Topics referred to by the same term