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...
The Vengeance is a companion of Madame Defarge and her chief associate among the women revolutionaries. Vengeance is a nickname for this person
Tale of Two Cities, A
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel written by Charles Dickens in 1859. Through the fate of several main characters, the story tells about the life of people living in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.
In 1775, Dr....
He is a haggard melancholy Frenchman with a sallow face and weak eyes. He owns a taxidermist shop where he works as a taxidermist and practitioner in bones. He collaborates with Silas Wegg to blackmail Noddy Boffin, but informs Mr. Boffin of the...
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...
Mr. Vholes is a legal adviser to Richard Carstone and ends up involving him in the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case and eventually turns him against Jarndyce
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...
Mr. Vholes is a legal advisor to Richard Carstone and ends up involving him in the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case and eventually turns him against Jarndyce
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...
Mr. Vuffin is a showman and the proprietor of a giant and a little lady without legs or arms
Old Curiosity Shop, The
This novel is Dickens's fourth novel, and one of two novels Dickens wrote for the short-lived magazine Master Humphrey's Clock, begun in March 1840 and finished in January 1941. It was published as a separate book in 1841. The novel tells the story...
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
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
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
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 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...
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
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
Mr. John Wemmick is employed as Mr. Jagger's clerk. In London, he is all business and a bit gruff. He lives with his father the Aged at Walworth in a small castle replica including a moat and drawbridge. At home, Mr. Wemmick is warm and...
Great Expectations
Great Expectations is Dickens's 13th novel. It appeared in monthly installments from December 1860 to August 1961 in the periodical All the Year Round. It was also published in the United States in Harper's Weekly. It is one of Dickens's best...
Mr. Wemmick, Sen. is Mr. John Wemmick's father. He delights in reading the newspaper aloud and being nodded to. He is hard of hearing
Great Expectations
Great Expectations is Dickens's 13th novel. It appeared in monthly installments from December 1860 to August 1961 in the periodical All the Year Round. It was also published in the United States in Harper's Weekly. It is one of Dickens's best...
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...
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...
John willet is the landlord of the Maypole Inn. He ends his days in a cottage in Chigwell
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,...
John Willet is the landlord of the Maypole Inn. He ends his days in a cottage in Chigwell
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,...
Mr. William Swidger is the keeper of the institution where Mr. Redlaw teaches. He is a simple good-hearted man
Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, The
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain is the fifth and last of Dickens's long stories with a Christmas theme. This book, which is centered around a chemist and lecturer Redlaw, is more about the spirit of the holidays than about the holidays...
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
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
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
She is a handicapped child who supports herself and her alcoholic father by making doll dresses. She walks with the aid of crutches and she works all day. She takes care of her father and frequently scolds him for his bad behavior. She also aids...
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...
