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    • Winkle, Mr., senior

    • Winkle, Mr., senior

    • 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
    • Gunter, Mr.

    • Gunter, Mr.

    • A quarrelsome young medical student, friend of Bob Sawyer. "In a shirt emblazoned with pink anchors, expressed his decided unwillingness to accept of any sauce on gratuitous terms from the irascible young gentleman with the scorbutic...

    • Pickwick Papers, The

    • A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
    • Meagles, Mr.

    • Meagles, Mr.

    • A retired banker, Mr. Meagles and his family are friends of Arthur Clennam, Amy Dorrit, and Daniel Doyce. He and his wife adopt Harriet Beadle from the Foundling Hospital, and name her Tattycoram

    • 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,...
    • Meagles, Mr.

    • Meagles, Mr.

    • A retired banker, Mr. Meagles and his family are friends of Arthur Clennam, Amy Dorrit, and Daniel Doyce. He and his wife adopt Harriet Beadle from the Foundling Hospital, and name her Tattycoram

    • 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,...
    • Gradgrind, Thomas

    • Gradgrind, Thomas

    • 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
    • Smithers, Robert

    • Smithers, Robert

    • A roaring city clerk, friend of Mr. Thomas Potter. "There was a spice of romance in Mr. Smithers' disposition, a ray of poetry, a gleam of misery; a sort of consciousness of he didn't exactly know what, coming across him he didn't precisely...

    • Making a Night of It

    • 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
    • Traddles, Tommy

    • Traddles, Tommy

    • A schoolmate of David and Steerforth at Salem House. As David's best friend, he serves as best man at David's wedding to Dora Spenlow. He becomes a lawyer and marries Sophy Crewler

    • David Copperfield

    • David Copperfield is the partly autobiographical story of the trials of a boy born at the Rookery, Blunderstone. His father dies before he is born, and his mother marries Mr. Murdstone, who is cruel to the boy. When she dies, he is sent to work in...
    • Mary

    • Mary

    • A servant at Mr. Nupkins' house, admired by Sam Weller

    • Pickwick Papers, The

    • A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
    • Wegg, Mr. Silas

    • Wegg, Mr. Silas

    • 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...
    • Wegg, Mr. Silas

    • Wegg, Mr. Silas

    • 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...
    • Hexam, Gaffer

    • Hexam, Gaffer

    • A strong tanned man with ragged hair, he made his living searching the Thames for dead bodies from which he removed all valuables before giving them to the police. He had two children, Lizzie, who rowed his boat, and Charley. He is found dead in...

    • 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,...
    • Hexam, Gaffer

    • Hexam, Gaffer

    • A strong tanned man with ragged hair, he made his living searching the Thames for dead bodies from which he removed all valuables before giving them to the police. He had two children, Lizzie, who rowed his boat, and Charley. He is found dead in...

    • 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...
    • Fern, Will

    • Fern, Will

    • A tanned, unemployed man from the country who had come to London in search of better employment opportunities. He brought his niece, an eight year old orphan, with him. He had been arrested for sleeping in a shed and Alderman Cute plans to...

    • Chimes, The

    • The Chimes, written in Genoa, Italy, is the second of Dickens' Christmas stories in which he attempts to convince the upper classes to have compassion for the poor. Taking place on New Year's Eve, a poor man named Trotty begins to despair about...
    • Trotter, Job

    • Trotter, Job

    • Accomplice of Jingle, who posed as his valet. A young fellow in mulberry-coloured livery

    • Pickwick Papers, The

    • Series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
    • Clennam, Mr. Arthur

    • Clennam, Mr. Arthur

    • After years abroad working in the family business, Arthur Clennam returns to England and befriends Amy Dorrit. He loses money in Mr. Merdle's banking scam and winds up in debtor's prison with Amy, where she cares for him when his health fails. He...

    • 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,...
    • Chivery, Mr. John, Jr.

    • Chivery, Mr. John, Jr.

    • Along with his father, John, Sr., Chivery is a jailor at Marshalsea debtor's prison. He loves Amy Dorrit, and helps her find her father's fortune

    • 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,...
    • Chivery, Young John

    • Chivery, Young John

    • Along with his father, John, Sr., Chivery is a jailor at Marshalsea debtor's prison. He loves Amy Dorrit, and helps her find her father's fortune

    • 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,...
    • Noggs, Newman

    • Noggs, Newman

    • Although once a wealthy man, he lost all of his money, and becomes Ralph Nickleby's clerk. He is an alcoholic, and has a paralytic limb which causes him to limp when he walks. He wears shabby clothes and has a singular manner. He befriends...

    • 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...
    • Dorrit, Frederick

    • Dorrit, Frederick

    • Amy Dorrit's brother, who lives in Marshalsea debtor's prison with his family. Mrs. Clennam plots to prevent him from learning of his inheritance

    • 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,...
    • Dorrit, Mr. Wm.

    • Dorrit, Mr. Wm.

    • Amy Dorrit's father, who lives in Marshalsea debtor's prison. He leaves the prison with his daughters after he inherits an estate

    • 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,...
    • Tip

    • Tip

    • Amy Dorrit's ne'er do well brother

    • 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,...
    • Dorrit, Fanny

    • Dorrit, Fanny

    • Amy's sister Fanny is a dancer who marries Mr. Merdle's step-son Edmund Sparkler. Like Arthur Clennam and the rest of her family, she and her husband lose everything in Merdle's banking scam

    • 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,...
    • Dowler, Mr.

    • Dowler, Mr.

    • 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...

    • Pickwick Papers, The

    • A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
    • Dowler, Mr.

    • Dowler, Mr.

    • 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
    • Pell, Solomon

    • Pell, Solomon

    • An insolvent-court attorney employed by Mr. Weller. "The Attorneys who sit at a large bare table below the Commissioners are after all the greatest curiosities. The professional establishment of the more opulent of these gentlemen consists of...

    • Pickwick Papers, The

    • A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
    • Doyce, Mr. Daniel

    • Doyce, Mr. Daniel

    • An inventor, Daniel Doyce partners with Arthur Clennam after he fails to get a patent from the Circumlocution Office. However, Clennam loses the firm's money when Mr. Merdle scams them in a banking scandal. Doyce patents the invention overseas and...

    • 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,...
    • Cavaletto, John Baptist

    • Cavaletto, John Baptist

    • An Italian smuggler who is in prison with Rigaud at the opening of the novel. After being injured in a mail coach accident, Arthur Clennam in Bleeding Heart Yard hires him. He helps search for Rigaud

    • 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,...
    • Ham

    • Ham

    • An orphaned fisherman and boat builder who lives with his uncle Daniel Peggotty. He is engaged to Emily, but drowns trying to rescue Steerforth

    • David Copperfield

    • David Copperfield is the partly autobiographical story of the trials of a boy born at the Rookery, Blunderstone. His father dies before he is born, and his mother marries Mr. Murdstone, who is cruel to the boy. When she dies, he is sent to work in...
    • Barnacle, Mr. Tite

    • Barnacle, Mr. Tite

    • Another member of the Barnacle family, he is the nephew of Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle

    • 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,...
    • Chuzzlewit, Anthony

    • Chuzzlewit, Anthony

    • 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...
    • Chuzzlewit, Anthony

    • Chuzzlewit, Anthony

    • 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...
    • Finching, Flora

    • Finching, Flora

    • Arthur Clennam's former sweetheart, Flora is reunited with Arthur after 20 years. Arthur finds her to be not quite the woman he loved before

    • 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,...
    • Smouch, Mr.

    • Smouch, Mr.

    • Assistant to Namby, the sheriff's officer. Troubled by a hoarse cough. "A shabby-looking man in a brown great-coat shorn of divers buttons"

    • Pickwick Papers, The

    • A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
    • Bar

    • Bar

    • Associate of Mr. Merdle, a banker. His name refers to the fact he is a bar magnate

    • 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,...
    • F.'s Aunt Mr.

    • F.'s Aunt Mr.

    • Aunt of the late husband of Flora Finching, and remains Flora's companion. She is the comic relief of the story and known for making nonsensical comments

    • 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,...
    • F.'s Aunt, Mr.

    • F.'s Aunt, Mr.

    • Aunt of the late husband of Flora Finching, and remains Flora's companion. She is the comic relief of the story and known for making nonsensical comments

    • 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,...
    • Dumps, Nicodemus

    • Dumps, Nicodemus

    • Bachelor-uncle of Mr. Charles Kitterbell, and godfather to his child. "Mr. Nicodemus Dumps, or as his acquaintance called him, 'Long Dumps', was a bachelor; six feet high, and fifty years old; cross, cadaverous, odd, and ill-natured. He was...

    • Bloomsbury Christening, 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
    • Boundery, Josiah

    • Boundery, Josiah

    • Banker and manufacturer of Coketown who prided himself on having risen from the gutter, had neither refinement of mind nor manners, and who married Louisa Gradgrind. "He was a rich man, banker, manufacturer, merchant, and what not, a big loud...

    • 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
    • Rudge, Barnaby

    • Rudge, Barnaby

    • Barnaby Rudge is a simple-minded, loving son of Rudge who murders his master, Mr. Reuben Haredale, for his money. Barnaby joins the Gordon Riots despite his mother's frantic pleas and becomes an enthusiastic participant. He is arrested and...

    • 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,...
    • Rudge, Barnaby

    • Rudge, Barnaby

    • Barnaby Rudge is a simple-minded, loving son of Rudge who murders his master, Mr. Reuben Haredale, for his money. Barnaby joins the Gordon Riots despite his mother's frantic pleas and becomes an enthusiastic participant. He is arrested and...

    • 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,...
    • Barney

    • Barney

    • Barney is a waiter at the Three Cripples at Saffron Hill

    • Oliver Twist

    • Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel written by Charles Dickens. The story is about the life of an orphan boy named Oliver Twist. His mother dies giving birth to him and his father is unknown so Oliver lives a miserable...
    • Sikes, Bill

    • Sikes, Bill

    • Bill Sikes is a burglar and thief who works with Fagin. He murders his girlfriend Nancy after Fagin convinces him that she has betrayed all of them. He runs away and accidentally hangs himself while trying to escape during the manhunt

    • Oliver Twist

    • Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel written by Charles Dickens. The story is about the life of an orphan boy named Oliver Twist. His mother dies giving birth to him and his father is unknown so Oliver lives a miserable...
    • Blathers, a Bow-Street officer

    • Blathers, a Bow-Street officer

    • Blathers is one of the police officers investigating the burglary at Mrs. Maylie's house

    • Oliver Twist

    • Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel written by Charles Dickens. The story is about the life of an orphan boy named Oliver Twist. His mother dies giving birth to him and his father is unknown so Oliver lives a miserable...
    • Cratchit, Bob

    • Cratchit, Bob

    • Bob Cratchit works as a clerk in Scrooge's business office. He is a poor, but happy, man with a wife and children. His youngest son, Tiny Tim, becomes an integral part of Scrooge's eventual reformation

    • Christmas Carol, A

    • A Christmas Carol, is a novella that was first published in December 1843. The main character, Ebenezer Scrooge is a bitter, miserly old man who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. He wants to help Scrooge reform...
    • Raddle, Mrs.

    • Raddle, Mrs.

    • Bob Sawyer's landlady, sister of Mrs. Cluppins. "A little fierce woman bounced into the room, all in a tremble with passion, and pale with rage"

    • Pickwick Papers, The

    • A series of adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and three friends, who travel around the environs of London
    • Weller, Sam

    • Weller, Sam

    • 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
    • Weller, Sam

    • Weller, Sam

    • 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
    • Brewer

    • Brewer

    • 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...
    • Plummer, Caleb

    • Plummer, Caleb

    • Caleb Plummer, a poor toymaker, is employed by Gruff and Tackleton. He has two children: a blind daughter Bertha and a son Edward. Dickens described him as little, meager, thoughtful, and dingy-faced. Caleb deceives Bertha by leading to her to...

    • Cricket on the Hearth, The

    • In 1845, Dickens planned a periodical about home life called Cricket. The plan did not materialize, so he turned the idea into The Cricket on the Hearth, a book with a domestic setting. This was published as Dickens' third Christmas book by...
    • Plummer, Caleb

    • Plummer, Caleb

    • Caleb Plummer, a poor toymaker, is employed by Gruff and Tackleton. He has two children: a blind daughter Bertha and a son Edward. Dickens described him as little, meager, thoughtful, and dingy-faced. Caleb deceives Bertha by leading to her to...

    • Cricket on the Hearth, The

    • In 1845, Dickens planned a periodical about home life called Cricket. The plan did not materialize, so he turned the idea into The Cricket on the Hearth, a book with a domestic setting. This was published as Dickens' third Christmas book by...
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