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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.
The earliest version of Sketches by Boz was published by John Macrone in two series: the first as a two-volume set in February 1836, just a month before the publication of the first number of The Pickwick Papers (1836–37), and then a "Second Series" in August 1836. After Dickens's fame skyrocketed, he purchased the rights to the material from ...
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Alfred Jingle is a fictional character who appears in the 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.He is a strolling actor and an engaging charlatan and trickster noted for his bizarre anecdotes and distinctive mangling of English syntax.
"The success of the Pickwick Papers was due more to the artists pencil than the author's pen; it is not generally known that the poor Seymour conceived the characters of Sam Weller and Pickwick before a line of the work was written". [The Sun, 1836]. [1] "Seymour first furnished the idea of Pickwick Papers. Mr.
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George Chapman in Mr. Pickwick (1903) at the Herald Square Theatre and later the Grand Opera House. [7] Sidney Hunt in The Pickwick Papers (1913) John Kelt in The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick (1921) Lionel Murton in The Pickwick Papers (1952) Robert Lankesheer - Bardell V. Pickwick (1955) [8] Julian Orchard in Pickwick (1969) Alan Parnaby in The ...
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