Guster is a young woman in her early 20s who comes from a workhouse and is now working as a servant in the Snagby home. Her actual christened name is thought to be Augusta
Bleak House
Bleak House was the ninth novel written by Charles Dickens. He worked on it from November 1851 to August 1853. It was originally published in 20 monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853 and is considered to be one of his best...
Junior Bailey is a street-wise servant boy at Todgers's Commercial Boarding House in London. While working at Todgers's, he has a variety of nicknames, including Uncle Ben, Uncle, Barnwell. He later goes to work as a groom for Tigg Montague and...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Anthony Chuzzlewit is the owner of an old-established warehouse firm. He is the brother of old Martin Chuzzlewit and the father of Jonas Chuzzlewit. Mr. Anthony Chuzzlewit is a greedy and tight-fisted business man who breeds these same qualities...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Colonel Diver, the editor of the New York Rowdy Journal, is described as a sallow gentleman with sunken cheeks, black hair, and small twinkling eyes. He meets Martin Chuzzlewit on the ship en route to the United States and directs him to Mrs....
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Sairey Gamp is a midwife, nurse, and "layer out" of the dead. Described as a fat old woman with a husky voice, Mrs. Gamp is habitually in liquor and is much more concerned with her own comfort than her patients' comfort. She has created...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Dr. John Jobling was Anthony Chuzzlewit's physician. He later became the medical officer for the Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Assurance Company. Dr. Jobling takes the company's money, but distances himself from its Board
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
The youngest gentleman boarder at Todgers's Commercial Boarding House, Augustus Moddle falls in love with Mercy Pecksniff. When she marries Jonas, Moddle proposes to older sister Charity Pecksniff. He is unwilling to face the sisters with the...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Mr. Nadgett is a private investigator hired by Tigg Montague to provide information on the customers of the Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Assurance Company. He is a short, dried-up, withered old man with shabby, threadbare clothes. ...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Mr. Seth Pecksniff, an architect and land surveyor, is the widowed father of Mercy and Charity Pecksniff. He is a cousin to the Chuzzlewit family. Pecksniff took the young Martin Chuzzlewit as student/apprentice. He then throws young Martin out...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
The elder Martin Chuzzlewit is a rich, eccentric, old man. He raised his grandson the younger Martin Chuzzlewit, whom he disinherited for a time. The elder Martin is suspicious of all his relatives and manipulates those with designs on his...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Tom Pinch is a devoted admirer and assistant to Mr. Pecksniff. He is a kindly, sweet-tempered fellow about 30; bald, ungainly, awkward-looking, and extremely short-sighted. He is the village organist. Mr. Pinch eventually leaves Mr. Pecksniff...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Mrs. Betsey Prig is a nurse at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and friend of Mrs. Gamp. "Mrs. Prig was of the Gamp build, but not so fat; and her voice was deeper and more like a man's. She had also a beard." Mrs. Prig and Mrs. Gamp often...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Chevy Slyme is a nephew of old Martin Chuzzlewit. He works with Montague Tigg to squeeze money from the family or anyone else. He fails at several occupations. Mr. Slyme is last seen as a London police officer
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Paul Sweedlepipe is Mrs. Gamp's landlord. He is also a barber and bird-fancier. The elderly Mr. Sweedlepipe is known as Poll
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Mark Tapley is the jolly, kind-hearted, young hostler at the Blue Dragon Inn. Being somewhat of wanderlust, he goes to London to look for a position. Encountering the younger Martin Chuzzlewit in London, Mark accompanies him to America. On the...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Mr. Scadder is an agent of the Eden Settlement. He is an unscrupulous American who sells swamp land to young Martin Chuzzlewit. Dickens says "every time he spoke something was seen to twitch and jerk up in his throat, like the little hammers...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
He was the office clerk for Mr. Mortimer Lightwood. He was very young and very dismal. He spent almost all of his time in the office, writing names in two volumes, even though his employer had only one client
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, addresses the issues of money, social class, and human values. John Harmon, heir to his father's fortune made as a dust collector, pretends to be dead in order to find out what people thought about him. He...
The wife of Mr. Boffin, she is cheerful and kind, with a broad figure. She loves fashion and high society. She convinces her husband to adopt Bella Wilfer, after the supposed death of John Harmon, and to adopt an orphan boy whom they plan to...
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, addresses the issues of money, social class, and human values. John Harmon, heir to his father's fortune made as a dust collector, pretends to be dead in order to find out what people thought about him. He...
Brewer is a constant companion of Boots and a friend of Mr. Veneering. He is often invited to their dinner parties and he also helps Mr. Veneering with his campaign
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, addresses the issues of money, social class, and human values. John Harmon, heir to his father's fortune made as a dust collector, pretends to be dead in order to find out what people thought about him. He...
The father of Bella Wilfer, who was engaged to marry John Harmon, he is a very poor clerk employed by Chicksey, Veneering, and Stobbles. He has a chubby, youthful appearance, although he has begun to grey. He is shy and would like to own one...
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, addresses the issues of money, social class, and human values. John Harmon, heir to his father's fortune made as a dust collector, pretends to be dead in order to find out what people thought about him. He...
He is the owner of Pubsey and Co., a moneylending business, even though he is very young. He is thin with sandy colored hair, small eyes, and cheeks the color of peaches. He tries to arrange a marriage with Georgina Podsnap, but is unsuccessful. ...
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, addresses the issues of money, social class, and human values. John Harmon, heir to his father's fortune made as a dust collector, pretends to be dead in order to find out what people thought about him. He...
She is a beautiful, dark girl about twenty years old. She rows the boat for her father, Gaffer Hexam, when he looks for dead bodies. She convinces her brother to leave home to go to school. She marries Eugene Wrayburn, a lawyer, after saving his...
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, addresses the issues of money, social class, and human values. John Harmon, heir to his father's fortune made as a dust collector, pretends to be dead in order to find out what people thought about him. He...
Former employee of Mr. Harmon, he inherited the Harmon fortune when the son was declared dead. Being uneducated, he hired a man to read to him. He moved into a new house, adopted Bella Wilfer as his daughter, and hired John Harmon as his secretary
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, addresses the issues of money, social class, and human values. John Harmon, heir to his father's fortune made as a dust collector, pretends to be dead in order to find out what people thought about him. He...
The former partner of Gaffer Hexam, he accuses Gaffer of killing John Harmon in an attempt to collect the reward money. He then becomes a lock keeper. After he finds out that Bradley Headstone tried to murder Eugene Wrayburn, he attempts to...
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, addresses the issues of money, social class, and human values. John Harmon, heir to his father's fortune made as a dust collector, pretends to be dead in order to find out what people thought about him. He...
A childhood friend of Mortimer Lightwood and a friend of the Veneerings, she is an older woman with a drab oblong face. She is frequently invited to social dinners
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, addresses the issues of money, social class, and human values. John Harmon, heir to his father's fortune made as a dust collector, pretends to be dead in order to find out what people thought about him. He...
A newly rich man, he hosts dinner parties in which he invites people in society. He is forty years old with wavy hair and a stocky build. He becomes a member of parliament by buying the seat in a corrupt borough
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, addresses the issues of money, social class, and human values. John Harmon, heir to his father's fortune made as a dust collector, pretends to be dead in order to find out what people thought about him. He...
The wife of Hamilton Veneering, she has a fair complexion with an aquiline nose. She is beautiful and very enthusiastic. She hosts many society parties and has a new baby
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, addresses the issues of money, social class, and human values. John Harmon, heir to his father's fortune made as a dust collector, pretends to be dead in order to find out what people thought about him. He...
A street vendor, Mr. Wegg sits every day on the same corner selling gingerbread, fruit, and ballads. He is older, with a hardened face and a wooden leg. He is hired to read books to Mr. Boffin each evening. He finds a will while at the Boffins...
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, addresses the issues of money, social class, and human values. John Harmon, heir to his father's fortune made as a dust collector, pretends to be dead in order to find out what people thought about him. He...
A friend of the Veneerings, she is the wife of John Podsnap and has a daughter named Georgiana. She is a fine woman from a wealthy family with hard features
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, addresses the issues of money, social class, and human values. John Harmon, heir to his father's fortune made as a dust collector, pretends to be dead in order to find out what people thought about him. He...
Mother of Bella and wife of Mr. Reginald Wilfer, she is tall and angular. She teaches when she has the opportunity. She is discontented and disagreeable, but does what her husband tells her to do
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, addresses the issues of money, social class, and human values. John Harmon, heir to his father's fortune made as a dust collector, pretends to be dead in order to find out what people thought about him. He...
Partner of the firm of Dodson and Fogg, Solicitors. "An elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which...
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Guster is a young woman in her early 20s who comes from a workhouse and is now working as a servant in the Snagsby home. Her actual christened name is thought to be Augusta
Bleak House
Bleak House was the ninth novel written by Charles Dickens. He worked on it from November 1851 to August 1853. It was originally published in 20 monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853 and is considered to be one of his best...
Colonel Diver, the editor of the New York Rowdy Journal, is described as a sallow gentleman with sunken cheeks, black hair, and small twinkling eyes. He meets Martin Chuzzlewit on the ship en route to the United States and directs him to Mrs....
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Mr. Scadder is an agent of the Eden Settlement. He is an unscrupulous American who sells swamp land to young Martin Chuzzlewit. Dickens says "every time he spoke something was seen to twitch and jerk up in his throat, like the little hammers...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Mr. Jefferson Brick is the War Correspondent for the New York Rowdy Journal, which is owned by Colonel Diver. The Colonel and Mr. Brick are certain Mr. Brick is well known and that his writing had great influence in Europe. Young Martin...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Junior Bailey is a street-wise servant boy at Todgers's Commercial Boarding House in London. While working at Todgers's, he has a variety of nicknames, including Uncle Ben, Uncle, Barnwell. He later goes to work as a groom for Tigg Montague and...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Paul Sweedlepipe is Mrs. Gamp's landlord. He is also a barber and bird-fancier. The elderly Mr. Sweedlepipe is known as Poll
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Mark Tapley is the jolly, kind-hearted, young hostler at the Blue Dragon Inn. Being somewhat of wanderlust, he goes to London to look for a position. Encountering the younger Martin Chuzzlewit in London, Mark accompanies him to America. On the...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Mr. Nadgett is a private investigator hired by Tigg Montague to provide information on the customers of the Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Assurance Company. He is a short, dried-up, withered old man with shabby, threadbare clothes. ...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Honourable Elijah Pogram is a member of U.S. Congress. Young Martin Chuzzlewit and Mark Tapley meet him on their return trip to New York City from Eden. He is considered a great orator by fellow Americans. He is described as having a muddy...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Sairey Gamp is a midwife, nurse, and "layer out" of the dead. Described as a fat old woman with a husky voice, Mrs. Gamp is habitually in liquor and is much more concerned with her own comfort than her patients' comfort. She has created...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Mr. Jonas Chuzzlewit is the son of Anthony Chuzzlewit. Mr. Jonas displays the same greedy, tight-fisted qualities of his father. Together, they operated the firm of Anthony Chuzzlewit and Son, Manchester Warehousemen. Impatient to have the...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Chevy Slyme is a nephew of old Martin Chuzzlewit. He works with Montague Tigg to squeeze money from the family or anyone else. He fails at several occupations. Mr. Slyme is last seen as a London police officer
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Mr. Montague Tigg, an adventurer, works with Chevy Slyme to extract money from the Chuzzlewit family. Later, known as Tigg Montague, he forms the Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Assurance Company. Using knowledge of Mr. Jonas...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Mr. Seth Pecksniff, an architect and land surveyor, is the widowed father of Mercy and Charity Pecksniff. He is a cousin to the Chuzzlewit family. Pecksniff took the young Martin Chuzzlewit as student/apprentice. He then throws young Martin out...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Mrs. Betsey Prig is a nurse at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and friend of Mrs. Gamp. "Mrs. Prig was of the Gamp build, but not so fat; and her voice was deeper and more like a man's. She had also a beard." Mrs. Prig and Mrs. Gamp often...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Anthony Chuzzlewit is the owner of an old-established warehouse firm. He is the brother of old Martin Chuzzlewit and the father of Jonas Chuzzlewit. Mr. Anthony Chuzzlewit is a greedy and tight-fisted business man who breeds these same qualities...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
The elder Martin Chuzzlewit is a rich, eccentric, old man. He raised his grandson the younger Martin Chuzzlewit, whom he disinherited for a time. The elder Martin is suspicious of all his relatives and manipulates those with designs on his...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
The youngest gentleman boarder at Todgers's Commercial Boarding House, Augustus Moddle falls in love with Mercy Pecksniff. When she marries Jonas, Moddle proposes to older sister Charity Pecksniff. He is unwilling to face the sisters with the...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
Tom Pinch is a devoted admirer and assistant to Mr. Pecksniff. He is a kindly, sweet-tempered fellow about 30; bald, ungainly, awkward-looking, and extremely short-sighted. He is the village organist. Mr. Pinch eventually leaves Mr. Pecksniff...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit appeared in monthly parts, January 1843-July 1844, as Charles Dickens' sixth novel. The novel was not as successful as earlier novels, although Dickens thought it was best of his stories to that point. Dickens' 1842 trip to...
