The editor of the Eatanswill Gazette. "A tall, thin man, with a sandy-coloured head inclined to baldness, and a face in which solemn importance was blended with a look of unfathomable profundity"
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
The tipstaff who conveyed Mr. Pickwick to the Fleet prison. "The hackney coach jolted along Fleet Street as hackney coaches usually do. Mr. Pickwick sat opposite the tipstaff; and the tipstaff sat with his hat beneath his knees, whistling a...
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
A guest at the Rochester Charity Ball. "One of the most popular personages, in his own circle, present was a little fat man, with a ring of upright black hair round his head, and an extensive bald plain on the top of it, -Doctor Slammer,...
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Editor of the Eatanswill Independent, enemy to Mr. Pott. "A shortish gentleman, with very stiff black hair, cut in the porcupine or blacking-brush style, and standing stiff and straight all over his head; his aspect was pompous and...
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
A prisoner for debt in the Fleet. "An admirable specimen of a class of gentry which can never be seen in full perfection but in such places. He was a tall fellow, with an olive complexion, long dark hair, and very thick bushy whiskers meeting...
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
A footman at Bath who introduced Sam Weller to the Footmen's Club. "With a very grave face, Mr. Weller slowly read as follows- A select company of the Bath footmen presents their compliments to Mr. Weller, and requests the pleasure of his...
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Member of the Pickwick Club. "On the left of his great leader sat the poetic Snodgrass poetically enveloped in a mysterious blue cloak with a canine skin collar"
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Counsel for Mr. Pickwick. "Mr. Sergeant Snubbin was a lantern-faced, sallow-complexioned man of about five-and-forty; or, as the novels say, he might be fifty. He had that dull-looking boiled eye, which is often to be seen in the heads of...
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
Yeoman farmer of Manor Farm, Dingley Dell. A friend of Mr. Pickwick. "A stout old gentleman in a blue coat and bright buttons, corduroy breeches and top boots"
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Boots at the White Hart Inn, afterwards valet to Mr. Pickwick, a Cockney. "He was habited in a coarse striped waistcoat, with black calico sleeves, and blue glass buttons, drab breeches, and leggings, a bright red handkerchief was wound in a...
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
A prosperous wharfinger [owner of a wharf] in Birmingham, father of Nathaniel Winkle. "A little old gentleman in a snuff-coloured suit, with a head and face the precise counterpart of those belonging to Mr. Winkle, Junior, excepting that he...
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 sporting Winkle, communicating additional lustre to a new green shooting coat, plaid neckerchief, and closely fitting drabs"
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
The lady whose room at the Ipswich Hotel Mr. Pickwick mistook for his own room. "Mr. Pickwick almost fainted with horror and dismay; standing before the dressing glass was a middle-aged lady, in yellow curl papers, busily engaged in brushing...
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
A member of the Brick Lane Branch of the United Grand Junction Ebenezer Temperance Association. "A little emphatic man with a bald head and drab shorts who answered to the name of Brother Tadger"
Pickwick Papers, The
A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
A drunken ranter, preacher friend of Mrs. Weller. "Sitting bolt upright in a high-backed chair was a man in threadbare black clothes, with a back almost as long and stiff as that of the chair itself, who caught Sam's most particular and...
Pickwick Papers, The
Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Solicitor to Mr. Wardle and Mr. Pickwick. He was a little high-dried man, with a dark squeezed-up face, and small restless black eyes, that kept winking and twinkling on each side of his little inquisitive nose, as if they were playing a perpetual...
Pickwick Papers, The
Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Counsel for Mrs. Bardell. "Then there entered two or three more Serjeants; and among them one with a fat body and a red face, who nodded in a friendly manner to Mr. Serjeant Snubbin, and said it was a fine morning"
Pickwick Papers, The
Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Boots at the White Hart Inn, afterwards valet to Mr. Pickwick, a Cockney. He was habited in a coarse striped waistcoat, with black calico sleeves, and blue glass buttons, drab breeches, and leggings, a bright red handkerchief was wound in a very...
Pickwick Papers, The
Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
A coachman; father of Sam Weller. "It is very possible that at some earlier period of his career, Mr. Weller's profile might have presented a bold and determined outline. His face however had expanded, under the influence of good living, and a...
Pickwick Papers, The
Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
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
Founder and general chairman of the Pickwick Club, a retired merchant with independent means, perhaps the most famous of Dickens' characters. A casual observer might possibly have remarked nothing extraordinary in the bald head and circular...
Pickwick Papers, The
Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
A disreputable medical student, friend of Bob Sawyer, whom he wanted his sister to marry. He later went to Bengal. A coarse, stout, thick-set young man, with black hair cut rather short, and a white face cut rather long embellished with spectacles
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Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Master of Ceremonies at the Bath Pump Room. A charming young man, of not much more than fifty; dressed in a very bright blue coat, with resplendent buttons, black trousers, and the thinnest possible pair of highly polished boots. A gold eyeglass...
Pickwick Papers, The
Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
The debtor whose room Mr. Pickwick hired in the Fleet. "The Chancery Prisoner had been there long enough to have lost friends, fortune, home, and happiness, and to have acquired the right of having a room to himself. He was a tall gaunt...
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
A prisoner in the Fleet, who rented a small slip-room in one of the upper galleries bald-headed. He was a sallow man all cobblers are and had a strong bristly beard - all cobblers have. His face was a queer, good-tempered piece of workmanship
Pickwick Papers, The
Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Prisoner for debt in the Fleet. An admirable specimen of a class of gentry which can never be seen in full perfection but in such places. He was a tall fellow, with an olive complexion, long dark hair, and very thick bushy whiskers meeting under...
Pickwick Papers, The
Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Editor of the Eatanswill Gazette. A tall, thin man, with a sandy-coloured head inclined to baldness, and a face in which solemn importance was blended with a look of unfathomable profundity
Pickwick Papers, The
Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Footman at Bath who introduced Sam Weller to the Footmen's Club. With a very grave face, Mr. Weller slowly read as follows A select company of the Bath footmen presents their compliments to Mr. Weller, and requests the pleasure of his company this...
Pickwick Papers, The
Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Yeoman farmer of Manor Farm, Dingley Dell. A friend of Mr. Pickwick. A stout old gentleman in a blue coat and bright buttons, corduroy breeches and top boots
Pickwick Papers, The
Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
An army officer, fellow lodger to Mr. Pickwick, and fellow-traveller to Bath with the Pickwickians. A stern-eyed man of about five-and-forty, who had a bald and glossy forehead, with a good deal of black hair at the sides and back of his head, and...
Pickwick Papers, The
Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
Member of the Pickwick Club. On the left of his great leader sat the poetic Snodgrass poetically enveloped in a mysterious blue cloak with a canine skin collar
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 sporting Winkle, communicating additional lustre to a new green shooting coat, plaid neckerchief, and closely fitting drabs
Pickwick Papers, The
Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London