Mr. Gashford is the secretary to Lord George Gordon. Gashford had been a schoolfellow of Mr. Geoffrey Haredale and Sir. John Chester at St. Omer's in France. He is a recreant Roman Catholic who has great interest in Lord George Gordon's mission....
Barnaby Rudge
Barnaby Rudge is the fifth novel which was begun in 1839 and finished in 1841. It is also the first of Dickens's two historical novels. This novel is based on the anti-Catholic riots - the Gordon Riots - instigated by Lord George Gordon in 1780,...
Plornish is a plasterer who formerly was imprisoned at Marshalsea's debtor prison. Upon leaving the prison, his wife and two children move to Bleeding Heart Yard
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit was originally published in 20 parts in 19 monthly installments, with the last two parts published in a double installment. William Dorrit, father of the title character, Amy, has been sent to Marshalsea debtor's prison in London,...
A London stockbroker employed by Mr. Weller. "A day was fixed for selling out and transferring the stock; and waiting, with that view, upon Wilkins Flasher, Esq., Stockbroker, of somewhere near the Bank, who had been recommended by Mr. Solomon...
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Clerk to Sergeant Snubbin. "Upon the table were numerous little bundles of papers, tied with red tape; and behind it sat an elderly clerk whose sleek appearance and heavy gold watch-chain presented imposing indications of the extensive and...
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
A Bath greengrocer, who purveyed for the select company of Footmen. "Crossing the Greengrocer's shop, and putting their hats on the stairs in the little passage behind it, they walked into a small parlour; and her the full splendour of the...
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
The judge who presided at the Bardell and Pickwick Trial. "Mr. Justice Stareleigh was a most particularly short man, and so fat that he seemed all face and waistcoat. He rolled in upon two little turned legs; and having bobbed gravely to the...
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
A medical student at Gray's Hospital. "Mr. Bob Sawyer, who was habited in a coarse blue coat, which, without being either a great-coat or a surtout, partook of the nature and qualities of both, had about him that sort of slovenly smartness and...
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Member of Pickwick Club. "The too susceptible Tupman who, to the wisdom and experience of maturer years, superadded the enthusiasm and ardour of a boy, in the most interesting and pardonable of human weaknesses -love. Time and feeding had...
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Mr. Gashford is the secretary to Lord George Gordon. Gashford had been a schoolfellow of Mr. Geoffrey Haredale and Sir. John Chester at St. Omer"s in France. He is a recreant Roman Catholic who has great interest in Lord George Gordon's...
Barnaby Rudge
Barnaby Rudge is the fifth novel which was begun in 1839 and finished in 1841. It is also the first of Dickens's two historical novels. This novel is based on the anti-Catholic riots - the Gordon Riots - instigated by Lord George Gordon in 1780,...
A retired merchant, obsessed with the doctrine of facts. "Thomas Gradgrind, sir, a man of realities, a man of facts and calculations, a man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be...
Hard Times
A satire on Utilitarianism set in a provincial industrial town, portraying the dreariness of life for industrial workers, the hopelessness of decent people trapped in a failed marriage, and the fallacy of mechanical theories of human nature
Plornish is a plasterer who formerly was imprisoned at Marshalsea's debtor prison. Upon leaving the prison, his wife and two children move to Bleeding Heart Yard
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit was originally published in 20 parts in 19 monthly installments, with the last two parts published in a double installment. William Dorrit, father of the title character, Amy, has been sent to Marshalsea debtor's prison in London,...
A London grocer who was left a fortune. "Once upon a time there dwelt in a narrow street, on the Surrey side of the water, within three minutes' walk of Old London Bridge, Mr. Joseph Tuggs, a little dark-faced man, with shiny hair, twinkling...
Tuggses at Ramsgate, The
A series of papers of a humorous character dealing with life and scenes, chiefly in London, at the time of publication and the earlier part of the nineteenth century
A drunkard. "There is scarcely a man, in the constant habit of walking day after day through any of the crowded thoroughfares of London, who cannot recollect, among the people whom he 'knows by sight', to use a familiar phrase, some being of...
Drunkard's Death, The
A series of papers of a humorous character dealing with life and scenes, chiefly in London, at the time of publication and the earlier part of the nineteenth century
He is a tall, full-whiskered, dashing gentlemanly man, who is financially dependent upon his wife's income. He often steals from his wife and threatens to kill himself when she finds out about it. He wastes his wife's money and forces them into...
Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The
Nicholas Nickleby, Dickens' third novel, is about social injustice in England. Nicholas Nickleby's father dies and the family, Nicholas, sister Kate, and their mother, are forced to move to London to ask for assistance from their Uncle Ralph...
Medical student at Gray's Hospital. Mr. Bob Sawyer, who was habited in a coarse blue coat, which, without being either a great-coat or a surtout, partook of the nature and qualities of both, had about him that sort of slovenly smartness and...
Pickwick Papers, The
Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Member of Pickwick Club. The too susceptible Tupman who, to the wisdom and experience of maturer years, superadded the enthusiasm and ardour of a boy, in the most interesting and pardonable of human weaknesses love. Time and feeding had expanded...
Pickwick Papers, The
Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
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