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Mrs Martha Bardell is a fictional character in The Pickwick Papers (1836), the first novel by Charles Dickens. A widow and the landlady of Mr Pickwick, a romantic misunderstanding between the two results in one of the most famous fictional legal cases in English literature, Bardell v. Pickwick, leading to them both being incarcerated in the Fleet Prison for debt. Background Mrs Martha Bardell is a widow, "the relict and sole executrix of a deceased custom–house officer ... a comely woman of bustling manners and agreeable appearance, with a natural genius for cooking, improved by study and long practice, into an exquisite talent." With her young son she lives on Goswell Street in London where she provides lodgings for two lodgers including retired businessman Mr Pickwick, the latter taking two rooms at the front of the house. Mrs Bardell develops an affection for Pickwick and regards him as a potential marriage partner. Having no servant, the hardworking landlady Mrs. Bardell looked after the needs of her young son Tommy Bardell and those of her two lodgers single-handed. Her Counsel, Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz, later described the services she provided for Pickwick: "She waited on him, attended to his comforts, cooked his meals, looked out his linen for the washer-woman when it went abroad, darned, aired, and prepared it for his wear when it came home, and, in short, enjoyed his fullest trust and confidence." Bardell v. Pickwick When Pickwick discusses with Mrs Bardell his idea of taking a servant (Sam Weller), expressing the view that three may eat as cheaply as two, she mistakes this for a marriage proposal and accepting his 'offer', much to his dismay, faints into his arms, possibly deliberately, as his three friends Winkle, Snodgrass and Tupman walk through the door and witness the scene. When Pickwick refuses to marry her Mrs Bardell is persuaded by the unscrupulous lawyers Dodson and Fogg into bringing a breach of promise to marry suit against Pickwick in Bardell v. Pickwick, one of the most famous fictional legal cases in English literature. During the trial at the Guildhall Sittings in London before Mr. Justice Stareleigh, Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz prosecutes Pickwick and bullies the witnesses into giving incriminating testimony, leading to Pickwick being falsely convicted; he is imprisoned in the Fleet Prison for refusing to pay the fines awarded against him. Eventually Mrs. Bardell too is sent to the same prison by her attorneys for not paying their fees. Pickwick learns that the only way he can relieve her suffering is by paying her costs in the action against himself, thus at the same time releasing himself from the prison. Legacy Bardell Rock, south of Dickens Rocks in the Pitt Islands, northern Biscoe Islands, was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 after Mrs Bardell. Notable portrayals Mrs Melville - Samuel Weller, or, The Pickwickians (1837) Lottie Venne - in the operetta Pickwick (1889) Jessie Bond - in a revival of the operetta Pickwick (1893–94) Laura Joyce Bell - Mr.
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Alfred Jingle is a fictional character who appears in the 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. He is a strolling actor and an engaging charlatan and trickster noted for his bizarre anecdotes and distinctive mangling of English syntax. He first appears in chapter two of the novel and accompanies the Pickwickians on their first coach journey. As they leave the Golden Cross Inn at Charing Cross, Jingle holds forth in characteristic mode on the dangers of decapitation as illustrated by low archways and the example of King Charles I, beheaded at nearby Whitehall Palace: "Heads, heads - take care of your heads", cried the loquacious stranger as they came out under the low archway which in those days formed the entrance to the coachyard. "Terrible place – dangerous work – other day – five children – mother – tall lady, eating sandwiches – forgot the arch – crash – knock – children look round – mother's head off – sandwich in her hand – no mouth to put it in – head of family off – shocking, shocking. Looking at Whitehall Sir, – fine place – little window – somebody else's head off there, eh, Sir? – he didn't keep a sharp look-out either – eh, sir, eh?" (Pickwick Papers Chapter 2) He usurps Pickwickian Tracy Tupman in the affections of Mr. Wardle's spinster sister, Rachael Wardle. Being only interested in her money, he elopes with her to London. Pickwick and Mr. Wardle pursue the couple to London where they pay off Jingle and rescue Rachael Wardle from an unhappy marriage. After subjecting the Pickwickians to various tricks and affronts Jingle is pursued by them by coach from town to town. Eluding their grasp, he is eventually encountered by Mr Pickwick as a fellow resident of the Fleet Prison where Pickwick charitably bails him out and later arranges for him and his servant Job Trotter to pursue their fortune in the West Indies. Orson Welles played Mr. Jingle in the Mercury Theatre on the Air production of The Pickwick Papers in 1938. In the 1952 film The Pickwick Papers he was played by Nigel Patrick, while in the TV musical Pickwick for the BBC in 1969 Jingle was played by Aubrey Woods. Patrick Malahide played Mr. Jingle in 1985 for the BBC's The Pickwick Papers. References Charles Dickens characters Inmates of Fleet Prison The Pickwick Papers Fictional actors Fictional tricksters Fictional British people Literary characters introduced in 1836 Male characters in film Male characters in literature Male characters in television Comedy literature characters
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Sam Weller is a fictional character in The Pickwick Papers (1836), the first novel by Charles Dickens, and the character that made Dickens famous. A humorous Cockney bootblack, Sam Weller first appeared in the fourth serialised episode. Previously the monthly parts of the book had been doing badly, selling only about 1,000 copies a month — but the humour of the character transformed the book into a publishing phenomenon, raising the sales by late autumn of 1837 to 40,000 a month. On the impact of the character, The Paris Review stated, "arguably the most historic bump in English publishing is the Sam Weller Bump." Such was the popularity of the character that William Thomas Moncrieff named his 1837 burletta Samuel Weller, or, The Pickwickians after the main comic character in the novel, rather than on Samuel Pickwick himself. Merchandise based on the character appeared, such as Sam Weller puzzles, Weller boot polish and Weller joke books. Character In chapter 10 of the novel, the eponymous hero of the novel, Mr. Pickwick, meets Sam Weller working at the White Hart Inn in The Borough and soon takes him on as a personal servant and companion on his travels. Initially, Sam Weller accepts the job as Pickwick offered a good salary and a new set of fine clothes. However, as the novel progresses, Sam becomes deeply attached to Mr. Pickwick, with the relationship between the idealistic and unworldly Pickwick and the astute cockney Weller being likened to that between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. While the elderly Mr. Pickwick is mostly a passive and innocent figure having an almost childlike simplicity, Sam Weller is depicted as 'street-wise', being the more experienced of the two despite his youth, and probably the most intelligent character in the novel. While Pickwick is quick to lose his temper Sam maintains his composure. While Pickwick has no interest in romance or marrying, Sam courts and eventually marries Mary, his Valentine – "a well-shaped female servant". Weller's loyalty to Pickwick is such that when the latter is sent to the Fleet Prison for debt Weller gets himself arrested so that he can join Pickwick there and continue to serve and protect him. Weller refuses to marry his sweetheart as he believes his marriage will obstruct him from continuing to care for Mr. Pickwick. However, Pickwick makes arrangements that allow Weller to continue to work for him and still marry. Weller as a Cockney In the novel Sam is the son of Tony Weller, a coachman. The Wellers, father and son, speak a form of Cockney English prevalent in London's East End in 1836, pronouncing a "v" where there should be a "w", and "w” where there should be a "v" - "wery" instead of "very" and "avay" instead of "away" - in language that was outdated just 40 years after the novel's publication. Having trouble composing his Valentine's Card to his sweetheart, Mary, Sam consults his father, Tony Weller: `“Feel myself ashamed, and completely cir –” I forget
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Winkle Island is the island lying between Tula Point and Pickwick Island, Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. It is separated from Renaud Island to the southwest by Mraka Sound. The island was shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. It was named by the UK-APC in 1959 after Nathaniel Winkle, a member of the Pickwick Club in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers. Location Winkle Island is located at , 600 m southeast of Pickwick Island, 2.2 km west-southwest of Arrowsmith Island, and 500 m north of the small peninsula ending in Tula Point, Renaud Island. British mapping in 1971. Maps British Antarctic Territory: Graham Coast. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 65 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1971. Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated. References Winkle Island. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer. Islands of the Biscoe Islands
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Pickwick Island is the largest of the Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It is 9.45 km long in southwest–northeast direction, separated from Renaud Island on the southwest by Mraka Sound, and has its northeast coast indented by Misionis Bay. The island was very roughly charted by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under Rymill, 1934–37. More accurately shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 after Samuel Pickwick, founder of the Pickwick Club in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers. See also List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands Maps British Antarctic Territory: Graham Coast. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 65 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1971. Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated. References Islands of the Biscoe Islands
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The following is a discography of the jazz/swing vocal group The Mills Brothers. Albums Famous Barber Shop Ballads Volume One (Decca, 1946) Famous Barber Shop Ballads Volume Two (Decca, 1949) Souvenir Album (Decca, 1950) Wonderful Words (Decca, 1951) Meet the Mills Brothers (Decca, 1953) Four Boys and a Guitar (Decca, 1954) Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers (Decca, 1954) Singin' and Swingin' (Decca, 1956) Memory Lane (Decca, 1956) One Dozen Roses (Decca, 1957) The Mills Brothers in Hi-Fi: Barbershop Ballads (Decca, 1958) In a Mellow Tone (Vocalion, 1958) Mmmm...The Mills Brothers (Dot, 1958) Great Hits (Dot, 1958) Sing (London, 1959) Merry Christmas (Dot, 1959) Greatest Barbershop Hits (Dot, 1959) Let Me Call You Sweetheart (Dot, 1959) Great Hits (Dot, 1958) Glow with the Mills Brothers (Decca, 1959) Harmonizin' With (Decca, 1959) Barbershop Harmony (Decca, 1960) San Antonio Rose (Dot, 1961) Yellow Bird (Dot, 1961) Great Hawaiian Hits (Dot, 1961) Sing Beer Barrel Polka and Other Golden Hits (Dot, 1962) The End of the World (Dot, 1963) Say Si Si (Dot, 1964) Gems by the Mills Brothers (Dot, 1964) Sing for You (Hamilton, 1964) The Mills Brothers Today! (Dot, 1965) The Mills Brothers in Tivoli (Dot, 1966) These Are the Mills Brothers (Dot, 1966) Anytime! (Pickwick, 1967) The Board of Directors with Count Basie (Dot, 1967) London Rhythm (Ace of Clubs, 1967) The Board of Directors Annual Report with Count Basie (Dot, 1968) My Shy Violet (Dot, 1968) Fortuosity with Sy Oliver (Dot, 1968) Dream a Little Dream of Me (Pickwick, 1968) Till We Meet Again (Pickwick, 1968) Dream (Dot, 1969) The Mills Brothers in Motion (Dot, 1969) Cab Driver, Paper Doll, My Shy Violet (Pickwick, 1969) No Turnin' Back (Paramount, 1970) What a Wonderful World (Paramount, 1972) A Donut and a Dream (Paramount, 1972) Louis and the Mills Brothers (MCA Coral, 1973) Half a Sixpence with Count Basie (Vogue, 1973) Opus One (Rediffusion, 1973) Cab Driver (Ranwood, 1974) Inspiration (ABC Songbird, 1974) 50th Anniversary (Ranwood, 1976) The Mills Brothers (Pickwick, 1976) Command Performance! (Ranwood, 1981) Copenhagen '81 (51 West, 1981) Singles References External links Discographies of American artists
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Edward Chapman (13 January 1804 – 20 February 1880) was a British publisher who, with William Hall founded Chapman & Hall, publishers for Charles Dickens (from 1840 until 1844 and again from 1858 until 1870), William Thackeray, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Anthony Trollope, Eadweard Muybridge and Evelyn Waugh among others. Early life Born in 1804, Edward Chapman was one of nine children in a family of six sons and three daughters of Thomas Chapman (1771–1833), a Richmond solicitor and his wife, Sophia (née Barrett, c.1776-1852). While his brothers followed careers in the Law, medicine, surveying, and engineering, Edward Chapman had “a taste for books, and a meditative, studious mind, and with books he chose to make his life”. With William Hall (1800-1847) he founded a bookselling and publishing business at 186 Strand, London in 1830, having bought out a small journal called Chat Of The Week. Chapman is thought to have had the literary skills to be able to spot a saleable book while Hall had the business acumen to sell it. According to Robert L. Patten by 1835 they were publishing illustrated fiction and magazines issued weekly or monthly. Arthur Waugh, later the Chairman of Chapman & Hall, described Chapman as "a quiet and retiring man.... full of information, and had such a broad, just mind that it was a great privilege to hear his judgment upon any subject." Charles Dickens In 1835 Chapman and Hall published Squib Annual of Poetry, Politics, and Personalities by the illustrator Robert Seymour. In 1836 Seymour proposed to William Hall that Chapman & Hall should publish a series of sporting illustrations by Seymour with short written sketches linking them together in some way. Further he developed the idea of a 'Nimrod Club' of sporting people having adventures as the framework for the sketches and illustrations. Chapman agreed that the work should be issued in monthly parts, with descriptive text by Charles Dickens. However, Dickens, then only 22, was not the first choice as writer. Charles Whitehead, the senior editor in the publishing house, did not have time to complete the work so recommended Dickens on the basis of his recently published and successful Sketches by Boz, also in a monthly periodical format. Eventually, this became The Pickwick Papers, and concerned the adventures of Samuel Pickwick and his friends. In May 1837 The Pickwick Papers sold over 20,000 copies and Hall sent Dickens a cheque for £500 as a bonus above the agreed payment. By the end of its monthly publications Pickwick was selling over 40,000 copies a month and Dickens received a further £2,000 bonus with Chapman & Hall making about £14,000 from the publication. Marriage When visiting his uncle Michael Chapman in Cork Street in Hitchin in Hertfordshire Chapman noticed Mary Whiting (c.1814-1875), the daughter of his uncle's neighbour in her garden. He fell in love with her, but coming from a strict Quaker family she was forbidden to communicate with him. Chapman therefore drilled a hole through a wall into
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Snodgrass Island is an island 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km) long lying northeast of Pickwick Island, Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 after the fictional character Augustus Snodgrass, a member of the Pickwick Club in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers. See also List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands Islands of the Biscoe Islands
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Augustus Snodgrass is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's first novel, The Pickwick Papers (1836). He considers himself a Romantic poet, though there is no mention of any of his own poetry in the novel. A founder and younger member of the Pickwick Club created by the retired businessman Samuel Pickwick, he is one of Pickwick's travelling companions along with Nathaniel Winkle and Tracy Tupman who extend their scientific researches into the quaint and curious phenomena of British rural life by travelling to locations far distant from London to report on their findings to the other "Pickwickians" remaining at home. Introduced by Dickens in Chapter One of The Pickwick Papers, Dickens does little to develop the character of Snodgrass in the novel. While described as a poet, and keeping extensive notes of his ideas for poems, he writes none throughout the story, at least, none that are mentioned or that he reads to his fellow travellers. In this way Snodgrass is depicted as an artistic poser, taking on the airs of artistry but with nothing achieved. At the inaugural meeting of the Pickwick Society Snodgrass is appointed the group's official poet and deputy-leader: "On the left of his great leader sat the poetic Snodgrass" (I, 10). While visiting Manor Farm in Dingley Dell in Kent Snodgrass falls in love with and eventually marries Emily Wardle. By the end of the novel: Mr. and Mrs. Snodgrass settled at Dingley Dell, where they purchased and cultivated a small farm, more for occupation than profit. Mr. Snodgrass, being occasionally abstracted and melancholy, is to this day reputed a great poet among his friends and acquaintance, although we do not find that he has ever written anything to encourage the belief. There are many celebrated characters, literary, philosophical, and otherwise, who hold a high reputation on a similar tenure. Legacy Snodgrass Island, lying northeast of Pickwick Island, Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands, was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 after Augustus Snodgrass. Notable portrayals George Chapman in Mr. Pickwick (1903) at the Herald Square Theatre and later the Grand Opera House. Sidney Hunt in The Pickwick Papers (1913) John Kelt in The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick (1921) Lionel Murton in The Pickwick Papers (1952) Robert Lankesheer - Bardell V. Pickwick (1955) Julian Orchard in Pickwick (1969) Alan Parnaby in The Pickwick Papers (1985) References External links Original illustration of Augustus Snodgrass, Joseph Clayton Clark (1856-1937): University of Oklahoma Libraries Collection Charles Dickens characters The Pickwick Papers Fictional British people Literary characters introduced in 1836 Male characters in film Male characters in literature Male characters in television Comedy literature characters
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Snubbin Island is an island lying 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) west of Pickwick Island at the western end of the Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 after Mr. Serjeant Snubbin, a barrister in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers. See also List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands Islands of the Biscoe Islands
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"Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C." is the 9th piece in Claude Debussy's second set of préludes. The prelude's title refers to the protagonist of Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers – P.P.M.P.C. stands for "Perpetual President Member of the Pickwick Club". The piece is characteristic for its eccentric shifts in expression and often melancholy or sentimental tone. It is also notable for incorporating the opening refrain from "God Save the King". A performance lasts approximately two and a half minutes. References Preludes by Claude Debussy 1913 compositions Works based on The Pickwick Papers
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Henry James Hayter (23 April 1907 – 27 March 1983) was a British actor of television and film. He is best remembered for his roles as Friar Tuck in the film The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) and as Samuel Pickwick in the film The Pickwick Papers (1952), the latter earning him a BAFTA Award for Best British Actor nomination. Early life Hayter was born in Lonavala, India, and brought up in Scotland, attending Dollar Academy. He made his West End debut in the 1936 comedy The Composite Man at Daly's Theatre. His best remembered film roles include Friar Tuck in the 1952 film The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (he reprised the same role in the 1967 film A Challenge for Robin Hood) and Samuel Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers of the same year. His rotund appearance and fruity voice made him a natural choice for such roles. Acting career As an actor, Hayter became a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His film career began in 1936 in Sensation, but was interrupted by World War II, during which he served in the Royal Armoured Corps. His 1946 television series Pinwright's Progress, shown on the BBC, is recognised as the first real example of the half-hour situation comedy format in the history of British television. In the 1968 film Oliver!, Hayter played Mr Jessop, the bookshop owner. He appeared in scenes when Dodger steals a gentleman's wallet outside the bookshop and also when Oliver is in court charged with the robbery. Hayter was the Ministry doorman in the film Passport to Pimlico (1949). His later career included roles in TV series such as The Forsyte Saga (1967) and The Onedin Line. In 1967, Hayter appeared in The Avengers episode "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Station" as the ticket master. He also appeared as Dickson McCunn in the BBC serial Huntingtower, based on the book by John Buchan. Hayter also appeared in the long-running BBC department store sitcom Are You Being Served? as the senior salesman Mr Tebbs in 1978. He was the original narrator of the UK television advertisements for Mr Kipling cakes. These adverts actually led to his departure from Are You Being Served?; the cake company paid him a significant bonus to withdraw from the series, as they felt his reputation lent an air of dignity to their advertisements. "Who can blame an actor in his seventies for accepting money for staying at home? I, now 78, would jump at the chance!" wrote Frank Thornton (Captain Peacock in the series) in a letter to one of Hayter's eight children in 1999. Personal life and death He died in Spain in 1983, aged 75. Partial filmography Sensation (1936) – Jock Aren't Men Beasts! (1937) – Minor Role (uncredited) Big Fella (1937) – Chuck Marigold (1938) – Peter Cloag Murder in Soho (1939) – Nick Green Come On George! (1939) – Barker Band Waggon (1940) –
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Charles Dickens's works are especially associated with London, which is the setting for many of his novels. These works do not just use London as a backdrop but are about the city and its character. Dickens described London as a magic lantern, a popular entertainment of the Victorian era, which projected images from slides. Of all Dickens's characters, "none played as important a role in his work as that of London itself"; it fired his imagination and made him write. In a letter to John Forster in 1846, Dickens wrote "a day in London sets me up and starts me", but outside of the city, "the toil and labour of writing, day after day, without that magic lantern is IMMENSE!!" However, of the identifiable London locations that Dickens used in his work, scholar Clare Pettitt notes that many no longer exist and, while "you can track Dickens' London, and see where things were, but they aren't necessarily still there". In addition to his later novels and short stories, Dickens's descriptions of London, published in various newspapers in the 1830s, were released as a collected edition Sketches by Boz in 1836. Dickens's first son, also called Charles Dickens, wrote a popular guidebook to London called Dickens's Dictionary of London in 1879. Locations Pickwick Papers Dickens's first novel The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) follows the travels of the club's members around England and, between them, they stay in over one hundred Inns during their journeys. A selection of those in the London area, including the George and Vulture in Lombard Street and the Golden Cross at Charing Cross, were the subject of Bertram Waldrom Matz's 1921 book The inns & taverns of "Pickwick", with some observations on their other associations, and still feature on Pub crawl guides today. Oliver Twist When Oliver joins the Artful Dodger to travel to Fagin's lair, they make their way through a series of streets until they reach the neighbourhood of Saffron Hill. While the novel's final scene is set on Jacob's Island, where the murderous Bill Sikes meets his death while trying to escape into part of the River Neckinger known as Folly's Ditch. Little Dorrit Charles Dickens's father was incarcerated in the debtors' prison of Marshalsea in Southwark, along with his wife and all their children except for Dickens and his sister Fanny, where much of Little Dorrit is set. Most of the prison has been demolished but a wall remains near the Southwark Local Studies Library in Borough High Street. The remaining wall also adjoins the churchyard of St George the Martyr where the fictional Amy (the Little Dorrit of the title) sleeps the night after arriving back late to the Marshalsea, and also where she marries Arthur Clennam. Also close by is The George Inn where Amy's brother Tip adds his request to a begging letter. Another inmate of the Marshalsea, Mr Plornish, moves with his family to Bleeding Heart Yard, Farringdon, and receives a
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Fizkin Island () is an island lying southeast of Pickwick Island and 900 m southeast of Arrowsmith Island, Pitt Islands in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. The island was shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 after Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, a character in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers. See also List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands References Islands of the Biscoe Islands
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The Pickwick Papers is the first novel by Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers may also refer to: The Pickwick Papers (1913 film), a silent film adaptation by Vitagraph Studios The Pickwick Papers (1952 film), a British black-and-white film adaptation The Pickwick Papers (1985 film), an Australian animated film adaptation The Pickwick Papers (TV series), a television adaptation first broadcast in 1985 by the BBC
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What the Dickens! is a 1963 recording by Johnny Dankworth, accompanied by his orchestra and guests, some of the leading UK jazz musicians of the day. It is a suite based on characters and scenarios associated with Charles Dickens. It was recorded in London on 29 and 31 July, 7 August and 4 October 1963, and released as a vinyl album. Track listing "Prologue" (2:26) "Weller Never Did" Pickwick Papers (1:58) "Little Nell" The Old Curiosity Shop (2:51) "The Infant Phenomenon" Nicholas Nickleby (2:12) "Demdest Little Fascinator" Nicholas Nickleby (3:09) "Dotheboys Hall" Oliver Twist (4:24) "Ghosts" A Christmas Carol (2:23) "David and the Bloaters" David Copperfield (2:57) "Please Sir, I Want Some More" Oliver Twist (2:01) "The Artful Dodger" Oliver Twist (1:39) "Waiting for Something to Turn Up" David Copperfield (2:46) "Dodson and Fogg" Pickwick Papers (1:55) "The Pickwick Club" Pickwick Papers (3:15) "Serjeant Buzfuz" Pickwick Papers (2:15) "Finale" (2:29) Personnel Guests Tubby Hayes – tenor saxophone Ronnie Ross - baritone saxophone Ronnie Scott - tenor saxophone Dick Morrissey – tenor saxophone Jimmy Deuchar - trumpet Ron Stephenson – drums Bobby Wellins – tenor saxophone Ken Napper – bass Tony Coe - tenor saxophone, clarinet Peter King - tenor saxophone David Snell - harp Orchestra Leader: John Dankworth Gus Galbraith - trumpet Leon Calvert - trumpet, flugelhorn Dickie Hawdon - trumpet, tenor horn Kenny Wheeler - trumpet, tenor horn Tony Russell - trombone Eddie Harvey - valve trombone Ron Snyder - tuba Roy East - alto saxophone, flute, clarinet John Dankworth - alto saxophone, clarinet Vic Ash - tenor saxophone, clarinet Art Ellefson - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet Alan Branscombe - vibraphone, xylophone, piano Spike Heatley - basses Johnny Butts - drums Roy Webster - percussion 1963 albums John Dankworth albums Fontana Records albums
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The George and Vulture is a restaurant in London. There has been an inn on the site, which is off Lombard Street in the historic City of London district, since 1142. It was said to be a meeting place of the notorious Hellfire Club and is now a revered City chop house. It is mentioned at least 20 times in the 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, who frequently drank there himself. The George and Vulture has been the headquarters of the City Pickwick Club since its foundation. When it was threatened with demolition, Cedric Charles Dickens, the author's great-grandson, campaigned to save it. Since 1950 it has been the home of his Dickens Pickwick Club and, in the same year, it became the venue for the Christmas Day Dickens family gathering, in the Dickens Room. The George and Vulture is a Grade II listed building, dating back to the early 18th century. It is now run by Samuel Smiths Old Brewery (Tadcaster). References External links Charles Dickens London – The George And Vulture Commercial buildings completed in 1748 Grade II listed pubs in the City of London Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers Hellfire Club
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Jinks Island () is an island lying north of Pickwick Island, in the Pitt Islands of the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957, it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 after Mr. Jinks, a character in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers. See also List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands References Islands of the Biscoe Islands
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Pickwick Landing Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Hardin County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The dam is one of nine dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the 1930s as part of a New Deal-era initiative to create a continuous navigation channel between the river's mouth and Knoxville, and bring economic development to the area. The dam impounds the Pickwick Lake and its tailwaters are part of Kentucky Lake. Pickwick Landing Dam is named for a community situated near the dam site at the time of construction. The community had been named after the title character in the Charles Dickens novel, The Pickwick Papers. Location Pickwick Landing Dam is located nearly above the mouth of the Tennessee River, a few miles north of the point where the states of Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi meet. This stretch of the river is also a geological boundary between the scattered hills of the Western Highland Rim to the northeast and the flatlands of West Tennessee to the northwest. Most of the land just south of the dam and its immediate lakeshore is part of Pickwick Landing State Park, and Shiloh National Military Park is located a few miles to the north. Pickwick Lake stretches nearly to the base of Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and includes parts of Hardin County in Tennessee, Lauderdale and Colbert counties in Alabama, and Tishomingo County in Mississippi. The area around Pickwick Landing Dam is sparsely populated, the nearest community of note being the small community of Counce, Tennessee two (2) miles to the southwest. Tennessee State Route 128 crosses the top of the dam, connecting the area to Savannah to the north. Capacity Pickwick Landing Dam is high and long, and has a generating capacity of 240,200 kilowatts. The dam's spillway has 22 bays with a combined discharge of . Pickwick Lake has of shoreline and of water surface, and has a flood-storage capacity of . Pickwick Landing Dam is serviced by two locks— one measuring and the other measuring . The locks' lift raises and lowers vessels up to between Pickwick and Kentucky lakes. Background and construction Throughout the 19th century, a series of river rapids known as the Muscle Shoals (in northern Alabama) were a major impediment to navigation along the Tennessee River and effectively isolated the upper stretches of the river (namely Knoxville and Chattanooga) from the nation's major inland waterways. The construction of Wilson Dam by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the 1920s and the construction of Wheeler Dam by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s flooded a large section of the shoals, but serious obstacles still remained between Riverton and Florence, especially in the vicinity of Tuscumbia. As Wheeler Dam neared completion in 1935, TVA knew a third dam would be necessary to connect the reservoirs at Muscle Shoals with the lower part of the river. Several private entities had investigated the
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The Pickwick Corporation was a California corporation that historically encompassed a number of related businesses, including the surviving Pickwick Hotel in San Francisco, California. History Prior firms, merged to the Pickwick Corporation, had used the Pickwick Theatre, as their departure point. The company was named for its office location, the 1904 San Diego Pickwick Theater, built by Louis J. Wilde, primarily for vaudeville but converted to movies in 1922 and demolished in 1926. Constituent companies Pickwick Stage Lines The Pickwick Stage Lines was one of the major bus companies incorporated into the Greyhound system in its formative years. Pickwick merged with Minnesota-based Northland Transportation in 1929 becoming Pickwick Greyhound. Pickwick Motor Coach Works Manufacturer of buses, including a unique sleeper coach called the "Nite Coach". Pickwick's coach factory was located in El Segundo, along what is now Aviation Blvd. just south of Imperial Blvd./Highway. In 1934, this factory was acquired by the Northrup Division of the Douglas Aircraft Co., re-named the El Segundo Division of Douglas Aircraft after John Northrup left the Douglas Co. in 1937. The building remained in use through World War II. Pickwick Airways Pickwick Airways operated a fleet of Bach 3-CT-6 "air yachts", initially between San Diego and Los Angeles, subsequently between San Francisco and Los Angeles, with service eventually extending as far as Mexico City. In 1929, Rena Vale was director of publicity. Gilpin Airlines emerged from the Depression-related failure of Pickwick Airways. Pickwick Broadcasting Pickwick Broadcasting was a network of radio stations in California, including KTAB in San Francisco (now KSFO), KNRC in Los Angeles, KTM (became KEHE, now KABC (AM)) in Santa Monica, and KGB (now KLSD) in San Diego. Pickwick Hotels In 1926, a Pickwick Hotel, was built by the company itself, and located in Anaheim at 225 South Los Angeles (later Anaheim) Blvd. It was initially named the El Torre but was re-named Pickwick in 1929. It suffered some damage in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, but was repaired. It continued in use under new owners until it was demolished in 1988. In 1927, the Pickwick Terminal Hotel, opened in San Diego. It was restored and re-named The Sofia Hotel in 2006. On 22 September 1928, the Pickwick Hotel in San Francisco opened at Fifth and Mission near Union Square. The same building was utilized by the Pickwick Stage Lines as its San Francisco terminal. It was mentioned in the Dashiell Hammett mystery novel “The Maltese Falcon”. The hotel survives under different owners today. In 1930, a large Pickwick Hotel and bus terminal was built by the company and opened in Kansas City. It was restored in 2015 and re-opened as "East 9 at Pickwick Plaza" in 2016. In 1930, Pickwick opened another hotel in Salt Lake City. The Pickwick Hotel in Los Angeles was located at 833 South Grand, adjacent to the Trinity Auditorium Building. The site of the hotel is now a modern parking garage with the address 801 South Grand. References External links "Pickwick-Greyhound Lines" at Bluehounds and
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The Pickwick Papers is a twelve-part BBC adaptation of the 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, first broadcast in 1985. It starred Nigel Stock, Alan Parnaby, Clive Swift and Patrick Malahide, with narration by Ray Brooks. Central characters Nigel Stock as Samuel Pickwick – the protagonist and founder of the Pickwick Club. Jeremy Nicholas as Mr. Nathaniel Winkle – travelling companion and friend of Pickwick's; a reluctant sportsman Alan Parnaby as Mr. Augustus Snodgrass – another companion and friend; an amiable poet. Clive Swift as Mr. Tracy Tupman – another friend; a very flirtatious man Phil Daniels as Sam Weller – Mr. Pickwick's valet Howard Lang as Tony Weller – Sam's father; does not really know if his name is written as Veller or Weller Patrick Malahide as Mr. Alfred Jingle – a strolling player, and a charlatan Colin Douglas as Mr. Wardle – friend of Pickwick's, a widower with two daughters Milton Johns as Mr. Perker – Pickwick's lawyer Pip Donaghy as Job Trotter – Jingle's servant Jo Kendall as Mrs. Bardell – Pickwick's landlady Other characters Dione Inman – Isabella Wardle Valerie Whittington – Emily Wardle Ned Williams – Master Bardell David Nunn – Joe (Fat Boy) Patience Collier – Old Mrs. Wardle Freda Dowie – Rachel Wardle Hugh Ross – Jackson Tamsin Heatley – Mary Sarah Finch – Arabella Allen Shirley Cain – Miss Witherfield Dallas Cavell – Roker Gerald James – Dr. Slammer John Patrick – Lt. Tappleton Russell Denton – Waiter – Bull Inn Anthony Roye – Dodson Kenneth Waller – Fogg Alan Mason – Dying prisoner Paddy Ward – Wardle Manservant John Woodnutt – Sergeant Snubbin Michael Ripper – Phunkey Nicholas Jeune – Trundle June Ellis – Cook Richard Henry – Lowten David Beckett – Benjamin Allen Deddie Davies – Mrs. Cluppins Stephen Finlay – Bob Sawyer George Little – Peter Magnus James Cossins – Nupkins References External links BBC television dramas Films based on The Pickwick Papers Television shows based on works by Charles Dickens 1980s British television miniseries 1985 British television series debuts 1985 British television series endings Television series set in the 1830s
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Pickwick may refer to: Arts The Pickwick Papers, a novel by Charles Dickens Samuel Pickwick, its main character Pickwick (operetta), 1889 one-act operetta by Edward Solomon and F. C. Burnand, based on part of the Dickens novel Pickwick (musical), a theatre musical based on the Dickens novel Pickwick (film), a 1969 British TV film, based on the musical Pickwick Theatre, Park Ridge, Illinois, United States Pickwick, a fictional dodo in the novels about Thursday Next by Jasper Fforde Music Pickwick (band), an American rock band Pickwick Records, a record label, distributor and chain. Places Pickwick, Minnesota, United States Pickwick, Wiltshire, now part of Corsham, England Pickwick Dam, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in the United States Pickwick Island, an island near Antarctica Pickwick Landing State Park, Tennessee, United States Pickwick Landing Dam, Tennessee, United States Pickwick Lake, Tennessee, United States Other uses Pickwick Corporation, a defunct California business; bus line, manufacturer of early buses, hotels Pickwick (brand), a tea brand Pickwick (West Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania), a historic estate home Pickwick Cricket Club, Barbados Pickwick Mill, in Pickwick, Minnesota Pickwick Video Group, a home video division based in the United Kingdom first established in 1982 Pickwickian syndrome, a medical disease named from the Dickens novel Don Pickwick (1925–2004), Welsh footballer Eleazer Pickwick (1748 or 1749–1837), British businessman See also The Pickwick Papers (disambiguation)
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Pickwick is an 1889 operetta in one act based on an episode in the 1836 novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. The score was by Edward Solomon to lyrics by F. C. Burnand. It was one of three works written by the duo in collaboration, the others being Domestic Economy and The Tiger, both in 1890. Production Billed as a 'dramatic cantata' in emulation of Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury (1875), the production opened at the Comedy Theatre in London, then under the management of Charles Hawtrey, at a benefit matinee on 7 February 1889, where it ran for several weeks with some success. As with Trial, there is no spoken dialogue, but in later productions dialogue was added. Based on the comic romantic misunderstanding between Pickwick and Mrs. Bardell in the first half of Chapter 12 of The Pickwick Papers when she mistakes Pickwick's intention of keeping a manservant - “Do you think it’s a much greater expense to keep two people, than to keep one?” - for a proposal of marriage. Burnand also incorporated some material from the breach of promise trial scene in Chapter 34 in which it is revealed that Mrs. Bardell had been keeping company with the baker. Burnand's development is to turn the minor character of the Baker into a major one, becoming in Burnand's version a serious suitor to Mrs. Bardell. She is tempted to accept his offer of marriage, he turning up with a blank marriage certificate and giving her half an hour to make up her mind, while she prevaricates, thinking she could make a better match by marrying Mr Pickwick. The piece was written as a vehicle for Arthur Cecil, while Savoy Opera performer Rutland Barrington ended up directing and also alternating in the roles of Pickwick and Baker. In his memoir Rutland Barrington by Himself he wrote of the production: My next appearance was at the Comedy Theatre, under the management of Charles Hawtrey, in a three-act farce by Sydney Grundy called Merry Margate, which was merry enough while it lasted, which was not long, and we followed this with a one-act piece by Burnand, founded on an episode in Pickwick, to which Edward Solomon had written some delightful music. Lottie Venne, Arthur Cecil, and myself represented Mrs. Bardell, Pickwick, and the Baker respectively. I am inclined to believe the Baker to be an invention of Burnand's, as I do not remember any mention of him in Pickwick; but it was a good part, and the little piece used to go splendidly; indeed, I fancy it would reproduce well, as would also another one-act piece I played in by George Hawtrey, namely, The Area Belle, in which I played Tosser to the Pitcher of Dan Leno, for one occasion only. I well remember Arthur Cecil's surprise and envy when we assembled at his chambers in the Haymarket for the first music rehearsal of Pickwick, and I read all mine off as if I knew it. He said
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Dickensian is a British drama television series that premiered on BBC One from 26 December 2015 to 21 February 2016. The 20-part series, created and co-written by Tony Jordan, brings characters from many Charles Dickens novels together in one Victorian London neighbourhood, as Inspector Bucket investigates the murder of Ebenezer Scrooge's partner Jacob Marley. Production Dickensian was commissioned by Danny Cohen and Ben Stephenson. The executive producers are Polly Hill and Tony Jordan, and the production company behind the series is Red Planet Pictures. Red Planet Pictures's Alex Jones vowed to lobby HM Revenue and Customs and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to relax the tax-relief rules for Dickensian; tax relief is only given for dramas longer than 30 minutes and each episode of Dickensian lasts 30 minutes. In April 2016, the BBC confirmed that they had cancelled the show after one series. Cast The cast includes the following: Episodes References to other Dickens characters and works Honoria Barbary and Martha Cratchit work in a dress-shop, Mantalini's—a reference to Madame Mantalini, a milliner in Nicholas Nickleby. The toy shop in the neighbourhood, Gruff and Tackleton, appears in The Cricket on the Hearth. The coffee-house on the street is Garraway's, frequented in real life by Dickens and appearing in The Pickwick Papers, Martin Chuzzlewit, Little Dorrit, and The Uncommercial Traveller. Amelia Havisham's first dog here is Jip, the spaniel that is Dora Spenlow's lapdog in David Copperfield. Constable Duff, who appears briefly in a few episodes, is a character from Oliver Twist. Episode 1: Jaggers mentions his clerk "Mr Heep"—Uriah Heep from David Copperfield; Silas Wegg, the tapman at The Three Cripples (a tavern in Oliver Twist), gives barmaid Daisy a tray of drinks to take back to "Mr Pickwick and his guests" (The Pickwick Papers). At the New Years reception hosted by the Haversham siblings, the tune being played during the dancing is called Sir Roger de Coverly and is played at Fezziwig’s Christmas party in A Christmas Carol. Episode 4: Jaggers talks of often considering an end to his partnership with Mr Tulkinghorn (from Bleak House). Episode 6: Scrooge snaps at Cratchit that, in renegotiating terms of a loan, he must surely "have consulted with Jacob Marley's ghost"—a foreshadowing of A Christmas Carol. Mrs Gamp talks of seeing a "Mr Wemmick," like Silas Wegg, go gray and lose his leg—this may be a reference to the father of John Wemmick, in Great Expectations, referred to by his son as "The Aged Parent" or "The Aged P". Episode 7: In mishearing "Barbary" as "Barnaby," Silas Wegg happens to allude to the title character of Barnaby Rudge. Compeyson's and Matthew Pocket's drunken leaps between rooftops echo Bill Sikes' death in Oliver Twist, when he accidentally hangs himself while trying to descend from a rooftop. Episode 9: Edward Barbary calls on a Mr Darley for help with his finances, to no avail; the last name suggests F. O. C. Darley, a nineteenth-century American artist who did illustrations for a number
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Sawyer Island is an island long lying north of Pickwick Island, Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 after Robert Sawyer, one of the central characters in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers. See also List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands () Islands of the Biscoe Islands
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Macniven and Cameron Ltd., later known as Waverley Cameron Ltd., was a printing and stationery company based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The company was best known for its pen nibs, the "Pickwick", the "Owl", and the "Waverley", which were sold under the advertising doggerel: History In 1770, Nisbet MacNiven established a paper-making business at Balerno, outside Edinburgh. The firm soon diversified into stationery and moved to premises on Blair Street in Edinburgh's Old Town. In the 1840s, brothers John and Donald Cameron became involved, and the firm became Macniven and Cameron. The "Waverley" nib was invented by Duncan Cameron, another brother, and was unusual in having an upturned point, making the ink flow more smoothly on the paper. The "Waverley" was named after the Waverley novels of Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), which were still hugely popular at the time. The new nib was initially manufactured by Gillott and others, until the company bought a factory in Bordesley, Birmingham, in 1900. It then manufactured its own nibs, fountain pens and printed stationery, until 1964, when the factory closed. Macniven and Cameron also made pens called the "Pickwick", "Owl", "Phaeton", "Nile", "Hindoo" and "Commercial". The company filed several patents in relation to its fountain pens. References External links 1879 advertisement for Macniven & Cameron Pens 1890 advertisement for Macniven & Cameron Pens Manufacturing companies established in 1770 Manufacturing companies based in Edinburgh Pulp and paper companies of the United Kingdom Defunct pulp and paper companies Stationers of the United Kingdom Fountain pen and ink manufacturers 1770 establishments in Scotland British companies established in 1770
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Tony Weller is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's first novel, The Pickwick Papers (1836). The irresponsible and care-free Tony Weller is Sam Weller's father. A loquacious coachman, the character never became as popular as his famous son but readers have always enjoyed his quaint humour and his even quainter philosophy. Character Tony Weller shares various characteristics with Mr Pickwick: both are advanced in years; both are fat, and both are kind and generous. Similarly, the two are innocents in affairs of the heart, with both being troubled by widows. It cannot be a coincidence that Dickens introduces Tony Weller soon after Mrs Bardell brings a court action against Pickwick for breach of promise. Unlike Pickwick, Tony Weller marries his troublesome widow, Susan, and his consequent miserable marriage causes him to give the advice to his son to “Beware o’ the widders": 'Widders, Sammy,' replied Mr. Weller, slightly changing colour. 'Widders are 'ceptions to ev'ry rule. I have heerd how many ordinary women one widder's equal to in pint o' comin' over you. I think it's five-and-twenty, but I don't rightly know vether it ain't more.' Weller Senior and Pickwick are dissimilar, in that, unlike Pickwick, Tony Weller takes few responsibilities in life, and has been an absent father to his son, taking no share in his upbringing, leaving the young Sam Weller to run the streets from a young age. Tony Weller uses his job as a coachman, necessitating frequent absences, as an excuse for his poor parenting and for being a poor husband to Sam's late mother. He is also a poor husband to his second wife when he allows her to maintain her association with the hypocritical minister Stiggins. Pickwick is the father to Sam Weller that Tony Weller never was. Despite not having seen each other for two years, and despite his shortcomings as a father, Sam and Tony Weller have an affection for each other which increases as the novel progresses. As Mr Pickwick becomes more of a father-figure to Sam, so Sam's relationship with his father also changes; and while he cannot accept Tony Weller as either a figure of authority or a father-figure in the same way as he can Pickwick, the two are fond of each other and become more like brothers or good friends. Appearances in Pickwick Papers Tony Wellers appears late in The Pickwick Papers, making his entrance in March 1837, in the humorous scene 'The Valentine' where Sam Weller is writing a Valentine for his sweetheart Mary, the pretty housemaid he eventually marries. Having trouble composing his Valentine's Card, Sam consults his father: "Feel myself ashamed, and completely cir –” I forget what this here word is', said Sam, scratching his head with the pen, in vain attempts to remember. 'Why don’t you look at it then?', inquired Mr Weller. 'So I am a lookin' at it', replied Sam, 'but there’s another blot. Here’s a “c”, and an “i”, and a “d”'. 'Circumwented, p’raps', suggested Mr Weller. `'No, it
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Pickwick is a tea brand, marketed by Dutch company JDE Peet's. It is the largest tea brand in the Netherlands and the leading brand in market share of black tea there, although its share has been decreasing due to competition. As of 2014, it is also the leading tea brand in Denmark, with 27% of market share. In 1753, Egbert Douwe and his wife, Akken, opened a coffee, tea, and tobacco kiosk on Main Street in Joure, Friesland. Until 1937, all the company's teas were produced under the Douwe Egberts brand; each box had an English postage stamp as a symbol. In the 1930s, the company was headed by Johannes Hessel, whose wife loved to read Charles Dickens. Impressed by the novel about Mr. Pickwick's adventures, he suggested changing the name of the tea to "Pikvik". In any case, the legend of the brand change was translated from Dutch into "London" on the company's official website. Traditional tea, fruit-flavored tea, herbal tea, green tea, rooibos-fruit mixture were produced under the "Pickwick" brand. The name Pickwick is derived from the book 'Pickwick Papers' by Charles Dickens. That book had just been read by the wife of the then director Johannes Hessel and she proposed the name 'Pickwick'. Charles Dickens was a frequent visitor of the White Hart Inn, owned by Eleazer Pickwick. The fame of the White Hart Inn, and the name of Pickwick, remains immortalized in Dickens book as well as the works of Jane Austens book “Persuasion.” In her book she describes how at the White Hart Inn Ann met her future husband, Capt. Wentworth, this was the real crisis of her life. Pickwick tea is currently made in the tea factory on the grounds of Sara Lee (formerly Douwe Egberts) in Joure. There are several types of tea flavors including: forest fruits, lemon, orange, strawberry, cactus, melon, cherries, tropical fruits, southern fruits, mango, peach, cinnamon, vanilla, green tea, rooibos, easter tea flavors, traditional tea flavors, iced teas and separate teas. History Douwe Egberts tea had been marketed under the company name since 1753, but in 1937 the name Pickwick was chosen by director Johannes Hessel's wife, who was inspired by Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers. In the 1990s the brand was introduced to Central and Eastern Europe, and in 2015 to the United States in limited supply. Variations Pickwick teas include black tea, green tea, white tea, flavoured teas, herbal teas and many others. References External links Official site JDE Peet's Tea brands Culture of the Netherlands
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Pickwick is a British television musical made by the BBC in 1969 and based on the 1963 stage musical Pickwick, which in turn was based on the 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers written by Charles Dickens. It stars Harry Secombe as Samuel Pickwick and Roy Castle as Sam Weller. This television production was based on the stage musical Pickwick which had been a commercial success. It was adapted for the screen by James Gilbert and Jimmy Grafton. The musical had been produced by Bernard Delfont and had premiered in the West End in 1963, again with Harry Secombe in the lead role and with choreography by Gillian Lynne. Running at 90 minutes and made in colour, the TV musical again had lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and a score by Cyril Ornadel. The book was by Wolf Mankowitz and it was directed by Terry Hughes. The programme was first transmitted on 11 June 1969 and again on 26 December 1969. One of the better known songs from the score is "If I Ruled the World". The cast of this production differed somewhat from that of the stage musical. Plot Set in England in 1828, the story centres on wealthy Samuel Pickwick and his valet Sam Weller, who are in a debtors' prison where they recall the misadventures that led to their imprisonment. On the previous Christmas Eve, Pickwick introduced his friend Wardle, Wardle's daughters, Emily and Isabella, and their Aunt Rachael to Nathaniel Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, and Tracy Tupman, three members of the Pickwick Club. They were soon joined by Alfred Jingle, who tricked Tupman into paying for his ticket to a ball that evening. Upon learning Rachael is an heiress, Jingle set out to win her hand and eventually succeeded. Pickwick engages Sam Weller as his valet and, through a series of misunderstandings, he inadvertently leads his landlady, Mrs. Bardell, to believe he has proposed marriage to her. Pickwick is charged with breach of promise and hauled into court, where he is found guilty as charged and sentenced to prison when he stubbornly refuses to pay her compensation. Cast list Harry Secombe ... Mr. Pickwick Roy Castle ... Sam Weller Hattie Jacques ... Mrs. Bardell Aubrey Woods ... Alfred Jingle Bill Fraser ... Serjeant Buzzfuzz Julian Orchard ... Augustus Snodgrass Robert Dorning ... Tracy Tupman Ian Trigger ... Nathaniel Winkle Sheila White ... Mary Michael Logan ... Wardle Joyce Grant ... Rachel Julia Sutton ... Isabella Cheryl Kennedy ... Emily Robert Yetzes ... The Fat Boy Christopher Reynalds ... Bardell Jr. Gertan Klauber ... Landlord Erik Chitty ... Judge Michael Darbyshire ... Dodson Tony Sympson ... Fogg Ian Gray ... Serjeant Snubbin Michael Balfour ... Roker Archive status Although the play still exists in full colour as its original videotape master, it has not been released onto VHS, DVD or Blu-ray, nor has it been made available on any streaming sites, including BBC iPlayer. A single clip, the opening titles, has been made available on the Ravensbourne University London website.
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The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick is a 1921 British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley based on the 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. As of August 2010, the film is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films. Cast Frederick Volpe as Samuel Pickwick (as Fred Volpe) Mary Brough as Mrs. Bardell Bransby Williams as Sgt. Buzfuz Ernest Thesiger as Mr. Jingle Kathleen Vaughan as Arabella Allen Joyce Dearsley as Isabella Wardle Arthur Cleave as Mr. Nathaniel Winkle Athene Seyler as Rachel Wardle John Kelt as Mr. Augustus Snodgrass Hubert Woodward as Sam Weller Norman Page as Justice Stoneleigh See also List of lost films References External links British Film Institute 75 Most Wanted entry, with extensive notes 1921 films 1920s historical comedy films 1921 lost films British historical comedy films British silent feature films British black-and-white films Films directed by Thomas Bentley Films based on The Pickwick Papers Films set in the 1820s Ideal Film Company films Lost British films Lost comedy films 1920s British films Silent historical comedy films
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The Pickwick Theatre is an art deco movie palace located in Park Ridge, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Designed by Roscoe Harold Zook, William F. McCaughey, and Alfonso Iannelli, the Pickwick opened in 1928 as a vaudeville stage and movie theatre. It is widely recognized for its marquee and 100-foot tower, which appeared in the opening credits of At the Movies. The main auditorium, built to resemble an Aztec or Mayan temple, originally seated up to 1,400 people. Seating capacity in the main auditorium was reduced by 200 seats in 1968 and an additional 400 seats in 2012 as the result of renovations. The 2012 renovation project, valued at $1.2 million, also included a new roof, mechanical improvements and exterior renovations including those to the original marquee. The theater was named in 1928 by the mayor of Park Ridge, William H. Malone I, for the title character Samuel Pickwick in Charles Dickens' novel The Pickwick Papers. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and continues to host films as well as live stage shows. In 1990, theatre management expanded the Pickwick by adding three new screens behind the original auditorium. In 2017, owner Dino Vlahakis added a 39-seat theatre located on the second floor of the rear building, in place of the theatre's offices. In celebration of the 2018 Illinois Bicentennial, the Pickwick Theater was selected as one of the Illinois 200 Great Places by the American Institute of Architects Illinois component (AIA Illinois). In 2022, the Pickwick Theatre was featured in an episode of NBC's Chicago Fire (TV series). Notes External links Official Theatre Website The Pickwick at cinematreasures.org Illinois Great Places - Pickwick Theater Society of Architectural Historians SAH ARCHIPEDIA entry on the Pickwick Theatre Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Cook County, Illinois Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois Theatres completed in 1928 Park Ridge, Illinois Art Deco architecture in Illinois Art Deco cinemas and movie theaters Buildings and structures in Cook County, Illinois 1928 establishments in Illinois
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Weller Island () is an island lying east of Snodgrass Island, Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 after Samuel Weller, Mr. Pickwick's servant in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers. See also List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands Islands of the Biscoe Islands
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was the first novel by English author Charles Dickens. His previous work was Sketches by Boz, published in 1836, and his publisher Chapman & Hall asked Dickens to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour, and to connect them into a novel. The book became a publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller joke books, and other merchandise. On its cultural impact, Nicholas Dames in The Atlantic writes, "'Literature' is not a big enough category for Pickwick. It defined its own, a new one that we have learned to call 'entertainment'." The Pickwick Papers was published in 19 issues over 20 months, and it popularised serialised fiction and cliffhanger endings. Seymour's widow claimed that the idea for the novel was originally her husband's, but Dickens strenuously denied any specific input in his preface to the 1867 edition: "Mr. Seymour never originated or suggested an incident, a phrase, or a word, to be found in the book." Background Dickens was working as a Parliamentary reporter and a roving journalist at the age of 24, and he had published a collection of sketches on London life as Sketches by Boz. Publisher Chapman & Hall was projecting a series of "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour. There was to be a club, the members of which were to be sent on hunting and fishing expeditions into the country. Their guns were to go off by accident, and fishhooks were to get caught in their hats and trousers, and these and other misadventures were to be depicted in Seymour's comic plates. They asked Dickens to supply the description necessary to explain the plates and to connect them into a sort of picture novel that was fashionable at the time. He protested that he knew nothing of sport, but still accepted the commission. Only in a few instances did Dickens adjust his narrative to plates that had been prepared for him. Typically, he led the way with an instalment of his story, and the artist was compelled to illustrate what Dickens had already written. The story thus became the prime source of interest and the illustrations merely of secondary importance. Seymour provided the illustrations for the first two instalments before his suicide. Robert William Buss illustrated the third instalment, but Dickens did not like his work, so the remaining instalments were illustrated by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne), who illustrated most of Dickens's subsequent novels. The instalments were first published in book form in 1837. Summary The Pickwick Papers is a sequence of loosely related adventures written for serialization in a periodical. The action is given as occurring 1827–28, though critics have noted some seeming anachronisms. For example, Dickens satirized the case of George Norton suing Lord Melbourne in 1836. The novel's protagonist Samuel Pickwick, Esquire is a kind and wealthy old gentleman, the founder and perpetual president of the Pickwick Club.
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The Pickwick Book Club (also known as the Pickwick Club) was a private library and club established in 1928 by Dorise Elaine Hill (later Neylon) ( - 20 January 1953) in Sydney. It was the only combined library and club in Sydney and, in 1936, was the first business to sign up as an occupant of the newly completed heritage listed City Mutual Life Assurance Building. Library and club Assisted by friends, Hill covered 200 books before opening her library to members. She later expanded the library to increase the collection and include facilities provided by a private club, including a ball room and a restaurant. During the day, members would visit to have lunch, read or play cards. In the evening it became a venue for balls, receptions, private parties, social events and at least one wedding ceremony. In its years of operation, over 5,000 wedding receptions took place at the Pickwick Book Club. Dorise Hill Hill was the eldest daughter of Mr Roland Hill and Caroline Mary Hill ( - 25 January 1942) who had three daughters and two sons. She was a business woman, avid reader and involved in the performing arts. She established the library to meet a need she perceived within the community. Hill was a foundation member of the Independent Theatre and between 1931 - 1932, the Pickwick Book Club further expanded with the establishment of the Pickwick Theatre Group by Hill and Phillip Lewis. The group put on numerous productions at the Savoy Theatre during 1930 - 1931 and continued to put on small productions on the tiny stage in the ballroom in the club. She was regular contributor to the Truth writing book reviews in a column called "Books Worth Reading". Following Hill's marriage to Dr. Michael Neylon ( - 1949) in July 1947, her brother-in-law Robert Milne Stephen ( - 1965), who became known as Mr Pickwick, took over the management of business. At her death in 1953, Hill left the Pickwick Book Club to her sister Dulcie May Stephen. The club continued to operate until September 1969. At the time of its closure, the club had 900 members. Despite the end of the Pickwick Book Club, the venue remained available as a venue for wedding receptions and evening parties. Locations Initially situated in Her Majesty's Theatre in Pitt Street, the club relocated to larger premises in the neighbouring Civil Services Stores in 1930 before its final move to the Mutual Life Assurance Building where it was located in the basement with the walls decorated with murals inspired by Charles Dicken's Pickwick Papers. To accommodate the club's needs, the architect Emil Sodersten redesigned the basement. Fund raising The book club's colours were orange and black, and to celebrate its first anniversary in 1929, a ball was held in support of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children. At a subsequent ball the following year to aid the same institute, over £187 was raised. References 1928 establishments in Australia Book clubs
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The Pickwick Papers is a 1913 three-reel silent film based on the 1837 novel of the same name by Charles Dickens. The film was produced by Vitagraph Studios and features John Bunny in the title role of Samuel Pickwick. Bunny and the Vitagraph Company desired to make an authentic recreation of Dickens's novel, and filming took place in England rather than at Vitagraph's New York studio. Bunny regarded the finished film highly, and The Moving Picture World praised its fidelity to Dickens's work. The film did not achieve popularity among audiences, however, who preferred Bunny's usual output of one-reel comedies. Only two reels of the film survive in the holdings of the British Film Institute. Plot The Pickwick Papers comprised three reels, individually titled "The Adventure of the Honourable Event", "The Adventure at the Westgate Seminary", and "The Adventure of the Shooting Party". The film does not adapt Dickens's novel in its entirety; each reel depicts a distinct episode from the beginning of the book. In "The Honourable Event", Mr. Pickwick catches a cab to meet three friends from his club but gets in an altercation with the cab driver upon arrival. The cabman is placated by a tall, thin gentleman named Mr. Jingle, whom Pickwick invites to dine at the Bull Inn in Rochester with his three friends—Mr. Snodgrass, Mr. Winkle, and Mr. Tupman. The group catches a coach to Rochester and dinner is served. As the evening progresses, all but Jingle and Tupman doze off, and the two decide to attend a charity ball being held that evening at the inn. As Jingle does not have the proper attire, Tupman takes clothes from the room of the sleeping Winkle for him to wear. At the ball, Jingle incites the envy of one of the other guests, Dr. Slammer, by escorting a woman named Mrs. Budger to her carriage. The next morning, Slammer sends a message to the inn requesting a duel with "the slim gentleman" who had insulted him. The bewildered Winkle accepts the duel, believing he had inadvertently insulted someone while drunk the night before. The duel is about to commence when Slammer realizes that a mix-up has occurred. The two men return to the inn, whereupon Slammer recognizes Jingle as the man who had insulted him and again demands a duel. Pickwick, however, refuses to accept that Jingle has done anything wrong and sends Slammer on his way. "The Shooting Party" begins with Pickwick and a group of friends—including Winkle, Tupman, and Pickwick's servant Sam Weller—setting out on a hunting expedition. As Pickwick is lame, he is carried in a wheelbarrow along the way by his servant. The party sits down for lunch on land belonging to an adjacent estate. Pickwick falls asleep, and the others continue with the expedition. The owner of the estate, Captain Boldwig, discovers Pickwick as he is making an inspection of his land and angrily sends Pickwick—still asleep in his wheelbarrow—off to the town jail, where his friends discover him that
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This is a list of fictional characters in the works of Charles Dickens. Contents: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | A Adams The top student David Copperfield's class at Dr Strong's school in Canterbury. Aged Parent is the very old and very deaf father of John Wemmick in Great Expectations. Allen, Arabella is the sister of Benjamin Allen, and eventually Mr Winkle's wife, in The Pickwick Papers. Allen, Benjamin is a medical student and later a doctor in The Pickwick Papers. Brother of Arabella Allen. Artful Dodger (alias Jack Dawkins) is a street-smart pickpocket. He is the most successful and interesting of Fagin's thieves. He shows Oliver the ropes of the pickpocket game and is later captured and sentenced to transportation in Oliver Twist. Ayresleigh, Mr is a prisoner in The Pickwick Papers. Avenger, The is a servant boy who was hired by Pip in Great Expectations. Pip has such a hard time finding things to keep him busy "that I sometimes sent him to Hyde Park Corner to see what o'clock it was." B Bachelor, The, is friend to the parson in the village church where Nell and her grandfather end their journey. He turns out to be the brother of Mr Garland and is instrumental in helping the Single Gentleman find his brother, Nell's grandfather, in The Old Curiosity Shop. Badger, Bayham, is a doctor, cousin of Kenge, to whom Richard Carstone is apprenticed. Badger's wife Laura talks incessantly about her two former husbands, Captain Swosser and Professor Dingo, in Bleak House. Bagman, The One-eyed, is a middle-aged story-teller in The Pickwick Papers. Bagnet family, The A musical and military family headed by Matthew, an old army friend of George Rouncewell. Bagnet's wife, the old girl, knows Matthew so well that he always calls upon her to supply his opinion. The Bagnet children Quebec, Malta, and Woolwich are named after the military bases where the family has been stationed. Matthew is guarantor to George's loan from Smallweed, when Smallweed calls in the debt George is forced to deliver a document Smallweed needs to help lawyer Tulkinghorn learn Lady Dedlock's secret in Bleak House. Bagstock, Major Joseph Neighbour of Miss Tox and friend of Paul Dombey who introduces Paul to Edith Granger and Mrs Skewton. The Major describes himself as "tough, Sir, tough, and de-vilish sly!" in Dombey and Son Bamber, Jack is an old man whom Mr Pickwick meets in The Pickwick Papers. Bantam, Angelo Cyrus is the Master of Ceremonies at a ball in The Pickwick Papers. Barbara Modest and pretty servant of the Garlands. She befriends Kit when he is also employed by the Garlands. Barbara later marries Kit in The Old Curiosity Shop. Barbary, Miss 'Godmother' who raises Esther
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Thomas Onwhyn (c.1811 – 21 January 1886) was an English artist, illustrator, engraver, satirist, and cartoonist. He also published an illustrated pirate edition of The Pickwick Papers in 1837 under the pen-name of "Samuel Weller", after Dickens's character in the book. He may have also used other pseudonyms including Peter Paul Palette. He also published tourist guides to various parts of England and Wales. Thomas was born in Clarkenwell where his father Joseph was a bookseller, printer, publisher, and newsagent on Catherine Street, Strand, while his mother Fanny was an accomplished artist who drew portraits of stage actors of the period although as an artist she was often credited as "Mr F. Onwhyn". The Lancet was in its early years published by Joseph Onwhyn. The date of birth of Thomas is unknown and the year of birth varies across sources with some giving it as 1813 or 1814 and there is no documented record other than his death certificate in which the age indicated would suggest that he was born in 1811. He was the oldest of several siblings. Thomas trained as an artist, illustrator and engraver and was active from 1836 to 1861. His younger brother Frederick died in a lunatic asylum at Stoke Newington on 31 May 1867 and some biographies confound this to state that Joseph "suffered a mental breakdown after taking on the publication of the satirical magazine The Owl". Onwhyn contributed to a number of publications including The Age, Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle, The Penny Satirist, The Satirist, or, The Censor of the Times, and The English Gentleman. He also contributed to The Punch where some of his illustrations carry the initials O.T. or T.O.Onwhyn illustrated an edition of the Pickwick Papers under the pseudonym Samuel Weller. He also illustrated an edition from Grattan of Nicholas Nickleby (1839) which Dickens referred to in a letter of 13 July 1838 commenting on ‘the singular Vileness of the Illustrations’ (Letters of Charles Dickens, 1.414). Onwhyn married Marian in 1866 and they had sons Thomas and Herbert. References External links The Comic Map of Europe 1854 Thomas Onwhyn's London English satirists English cartoonists
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Smiggers Island () is an island lying 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) southeast of Weller Island, Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 after Joseph Smiggers, Esquire, Perpetual Vice President of the Pickwick Club in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers. See also List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands Islands of the Biscoe Islands
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The bibliography of Charles Dickens (1812–1870) includes more than a dozen major novels, many short stories (including Christmas-themed stories and ghost stories), several plays, several non-fiction books, and individual essays and articles. Dickens's novels were serialized initially in weekly or monthly magazines, then reprinted in standard book formats. Novels and novellas Short stories "Mr. Minns and his Cousin" (1833) (part of Sketches by Boz) "Mrs. Joseph Porter" (1834) (part of Sketches by Boz) "Horatio Sparkins" (1834) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The Bloomsbury Christening" (1834) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The Boarding-House" (1834) (part of Sketches by Boz) "Sentiment" (1834) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The Steam Excursion" (1834) (part of Sketches by Boz) "A Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle" (1835) (part of Sketches by Boz) "Our Parish" (1835) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The Great Winglebury Duel" (1836) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The Black Veil" (1836) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The Tuggses at Ramsgate" (1836) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The Drunkard's Death" (1836) (part of Sketches by Boz) "The Stroller's Tale" (1836) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "The Convict's Return" (1836) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "A Madman's Manuscript" (1836) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "The Bagman's Story" (1836) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "The Parish Clerk" (1836) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "The Old Man's Tale" (1836) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton" (1836) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "The True Legend of P. B." (1837) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "The Story of the Bagman's Uncle" (1837) (part of The Pickwick Papers) "Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble" (1837) (part of The Mudfog Papers) "The Pantomime of Life" (1837) (part of The Mudfog Papers) "Some Particulars Concerning a Lion" (1837) (part of The Mudfog Papers) "The First Meeting" (1837) (part of The Mudfog Papers) "The Second Meeting" (1838) (part of The Mudfog Papers) "Mr. Robert Bolton" (1838) (part of The Mudfog Papers) "Familiar Epistle from a Parent to a Child" (1838) (part of The Mudfog Papers) "The Lamplighter" (1838) "The Five Sisters of York" (1839) (part of Nicholas Nickleby) "The Baron of Grogzwig" (1839) (part of Nicholas Nickleby) "First Night of the Giant Chronicles" (1840) (part of Master Humphrey's Clock) "A Confession Found in a Prison in the Time of Charles the Second" (1840) (part of Master Humphrey's Clock) "Mr. Pickwick's Tale" (1840) (part of Master Humphrey's Clock) "A Child's Dream of a Star" (1850) "Captain Murderer" (1850) (part of The Uncommercial Traveller) "To Be Read at Dusk" (1852) "The Long Voyage" (1853) "Prince Bull" (1855) "The Thousand and One Humbugs" (1855) "The History of a Self-Tormentor" (1857) (part of Little Dorrit) "Mrs. Gamp" (1858) (part of Martin Chuzzlewit) "Hunted Down" (1859) "The Substance of the Shadow" (1859) (part of A Tale of Two Cities) "George Silverman's Explanation" (1868) "Holiday Romance" (1868) Stories from collaborative works "The Poor Relation's Story" (1852) (part of A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire) "The Child's Story"
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William Hall (19 October 1800 – 7 March 1847) was a British publisher who, with Edward Chapman, founded Chapman & Hall, publishers for Charles Dickens (from 1840 until 1844 and again from 1858 until 1870), William Thackeray, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Anthony Trollope, Eadweard Muybridge and Evelyn Waugh among others. Life Little is known of his early life. He was born in London, the son of John Hall and his wife, Elizabeth. His brother Spencer Hall became librarian of the Athenaeum Club. With Edward Chapman (1804–1880) he founded a bookselling and publishing business at 186 Strand, London, in 1830, having bought out a small journal called Chat Of The Week. According to Robert L. Patten, by 1835 they were publishing illustrated fiction and magazines issued weekly or monthly. Chapman is thought to have had the literary skills to be able to spot a saleable book while Hall had the business acumen to sell it. In 1835, Chapman and Hall published Squib Annual of Poetry, Politics, and Personalities by the illustrator Robert Seymour. In 1836 Seymour proposed to William Hall that Chapman & Hall should publish a series of sporting illustrations by Seymour with short written sketches linking them together in some way. Further he developed the idea of a "Nimrod Club" of sporting people having adventures as the framework for the sketches and illustrations. Chapman agreed that the work should be issued in monthly parts, with descriptive text by Charles Dickens. However, Dickens, then only 22, was not the first choice as writer. Charled Whitehead, the senior editor in the publishing house, did not have time to complete the work so recommended Dickens on the basis of his recently published and successful Sketches by Boz, also in a monthly periodical format. Eventually, this became The Pickwick Papers, and concerned the adventures of Samuel Pickwick and his friends. Following the suicide of Robert Seymour, Dickens suggested to William Hall that Hablot Knight Browne should be the new illustrator. In May 1837, The Pickwick Papers sold more than 20,000 copies and Hall sent Dickens a cheque for £500 as a bonus above the agreed payment. By the end of its monthly publications, Pickwick was selling over 40,000 copies a month and Dickens received a further £2,000 bonus with Chapman & Hall making about £14,000 from the publication. Charles Dickens attended Hall's wedding in 1840, an event he fictionalized for Sketches of Young Couples which Chapman and Hall published in 1840. There Mr Chirrup (Hall) is described as having the smartness and ‘the brisk, quick manner of a small bird’. After Dickens spent many "pleasant, playful evenings" at their house in Norwood. Dickens also arranged for his friends such as Thomas Carlyle to be published by Chapman and Hall and for John Forster to become the literary advisor to the company. William Hall died suddenly at Chapman & Hall's office at 186 Strand, London, in March 1847, aged 46. Charles Dickens attended his burial on the western side of Highgate Cemetery (plot
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Samuel Calvin (July 30, 1811 – March 12, 1890) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Biography Samuel Calvin was born in Washingtonville, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and Milton Academy. He taught in Huntingdon Academy, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1836 and commenced practice in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Calvin was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1850. He resumed the practice of law and served as director of the Hollidaysburg School Board for thirty years. He was a member of the State revenue board and a member of the State constitutional convention in 1873. He died in Hollidaysburg in 1890 and was buried in Zion Lutheran Cemetery (not in the Presbyterian Cemetery as previously thought although a grandson of the same name is buried there). A Fall 1961 Bulletin of the Blair County Historical Society republished an article by Dr. Harry T. Coffey (written May 1, 1896) about the early days of the town and the leading men of Hollidaysburg: "Among the young lawyers and business men who afterwards became prominent in public affairs were such men as David R. Porter, afterwards governor; James M. Bell, A. Porter Wilson and Samuel Calvin, (then a schoolteacher in Huntingdon). "...I remember distinctly seeing as they came out in weekly parts, in green paper covers the first issues of Dicken's (then called "Boz") "Pickwick Papers." Lying on the counter and hearing Samuel Calvin reading aloud to some friends who might be with him, the doings of the immortal Pickwick... No man was ever born better fitted to interpret Dickens, (Himself scarcely excepted) than Samuel Calvin. Himself for many years an accomplished principal, well versed in rhetoric and elocution and an orator of no little ability: a man whose able speeches on the subject of the tariff made him prominent as the whig (sic) candidate for governor in after years; a man who had much of the gentleness, amiability and good nature, without any of the weakness of Pickwick. "Mr. Calvin, who must have removed from Huntingdon very soon after my father, was a frequent visitor at our house. He had a wide knowledge of classical literature, was a fine conversationalist, and I am indebted to him for some of the finest quotations from them, I can now recall, and also in developing my taste in the matter of reading only the best authors, especially English, whom he seems to have at his fingerends." Samuel Calvin married Rebecca Blodget in the early 1840s and produced a daughter, Eliza in 1845, and a son, Mathew, in 1847. Mathew followed his father's example and became a lawyer. Descendants of Samuel Calvin live in several states; Virginia, Maryland, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Sources The Political Graveyard 1811 births 1890 deaths Pennsylvania lawyers American Presbyterians Milton Academy alumni People from Montour County, Pennsylvania Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American legislators 19th-century
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Tupman Island () is an island 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) long lying east of Pickwick Island, Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 after Tracy Tupman, a member of the Pickwick Club in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers. See also List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands Islands of the Biscoe Islands
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Eleazer Pickwick (2 Feb 1748 – 8 December 1837) was a British businessman. He became very rich and funded the local canal. Life Pickwick's grandfather, Moses, was a foundling who was discovered in an area of Corsham known as Pickwick. This Pickwick was baptised Feb 2, 1748 in Freshford, Bath, UK. He started a coaching business that came to be based at The White Hart inn opposite the iconic Pump Room. Pickwick's nephew, Moses Pickwick, managed the inn. In 1794 Pickwick was on the board of the company that was created by the Somerset Coal Canal. Pickwick invested tens of thousands of pounds in the canal business after its bankers refused to lend any more capital. Pickwick bought Bathford Manor House in 1798. Pickwick died in Bath in 1837 and was buried in Bathford. Legacy The White Hart inn was demolished in 1869 but the sign was reused on another inn. There is a plaque that records the location of the inn and the Pickwicks on the corner of Stall Street and Westgate Street in Bath. The coaching business continued on very successfully under the ownership of Moses Pickwick. From the 1830s business reduced as the railways grew in importance. It is widely believed that Dickens wrote The Pickwick Papers after visiting Bath using the surname he had seen there. His inn is also mentioned in the works of Jane Austen. Eleazer Pickwick's nephew, Charles Henry Pickwick-Sainsbury (1829-1885), descendants changed their name to Sainsbury. It has been speculated that part of the motive may have been to discard their lowly born ancestry, favouring their mothers (Harriet Sarah Sainsbury) prestigious line; and Dickens' caricatures that bore their name. References 1740s births 1837 deaths People from Somerset Mayors of Bath, Somerset 18th-century British businesspeople 19th-century British businesspeople
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Pickwick is an unincorporated community in Homer Township, Winona County, Minnesota, United States. Geography The community is located along Winona County Road 7 near its junction with Little Trout Valley Road. Highways 61 and 14 (co-signed) are nearby. Big Trout Creek and Little Trout Creek meet near Pickwick. Nearby places include Winona, Homer, Lamoille, Donehower, and Dakota. Demographics History In 1854, G. W. T. Grant held a land claim for the area that now holds the Pickwick Mill. His family lived in a cabin owned by an Ira Hammond, which was situated on 1,200 acres near La Moille. and modern day Highway 3. On June 19 of that year, Jason E. Rutherford, his wife (sister of G. W. T. Grant's wife, Cynthia Higley McNaughton), their family, and Jason's brother B. W. Rutherford traveled from Ohio through Little Trout Valley in a covered wagon, where they camped at the site that eventually became Pickwick. The next day, they met with the Grant family at Ira Hammond's cabin. The Rutherfords and Grants traveled up Pickwick Valley where the Rutherfords established a land claim and began cutting logs for a cabin that would be erected that Summer by the Rutherford brothers, Grant, Edward Huttenhower, Jamies Halligan, O.B. Dodge, and Charles Howe, which became the first building built in the valley. The Rutherford family lived in their covered wagon for six weeks until the cabin was complete, then the Grants moved in with them, making 14 people living in a small log cabin for the summer. As the summer bore on, the Grants built a cabin (Where O. Sistad's property was in 1904) and moved in. In July, B. W. Rutherford returned to Ohio, then in September the Grants and Rutherfords traveled to Delaware County, Iowa. On April 25, 1855, the Rutherfords and Grants returned, accompanied by the families of M. G. Stedman, Alexander Stedman, Calvin Grant, Andrew Finch, J. L. Finch, and Eli Branch, all with covered wagons and livestock consisting of hogs and cattle. The Stedmans, Calvin Grant, and the Finches broke off to stake claims in Pleasant Hill. The Pickwick Mill G. W. T. Grant built another cabin, this time across from the site of the modern Pickwick Mill. He built a dam made of either dirt or clay, only to have it washed out that winter. Grant rebuilt the dam as a crib dam with wooden supports to withstand stronger water pressure. He included a saw mill to continue expansion as well as a set of burrs for grinding flour. This expansion continued until 1858 when the stone building that constitutes the Pickwick Mill was completed. Soon after, Grant sold his interest in the Mill to Wilson Davis. In spring 1856, Timothy sold his interest to his son, Wilson Davis, who built a small store and ran the mill. Pickwick Village Pickwick was platted in 1857, and named by Cynthia Grant, G. W. T. Grant's wife, after The Pickwick Papers, a novel by Charles Dickens. Pickwick experienced reasonable growth with
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"If I Ruled the World" is a popular song, composed by Leslie Bricusse and Cyril Ornadel, which was originally from the 1963 West End musical Pickwick (based on Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers). Background In the context of the stage musical, the song is sung by Samuel Pickwick, when he is mistaken for an election candidate and called on by the crowd to give his manifesto. Ornadel and Bricusse received the 1963 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. First recordings The song is usually associated with Sir Harry Secombe, who got the song to No 18 in the UK charts in 1963. Tony Bennett originally recorded the song in 1965, and had a number 34 hit with it on the U.S. pop singles charts and number 8 on the Middle-Road Singles chart. In a duet with Celine Dion, he returned to the song on his Grammy-winning 2006 album Duets: An American Classic. Other recordings It has been performed by other singers, notably: Nancy Wilson Robert Goulet James Brown Sammy Davis Jr. Stevie Wonder The Supremes Tom Jones Regina Belle Jamie Cullum also recorded a version for his album The Pursuit, and performed it at his special performance at the Late Night Prom, number Prom 55, of The Proms in London, with The Heritage Ensemble, on Thursday 26 August 2010 between 22:15 and 13.45. As shown on BBC televisions' BBC Four on the following night. Popular culture The song was featured in Bruce Almighty (2003), in a scene with Bennett himself singing the song at a scene in a piano-bar . The song was featured in the movie, War of the Worlds by Steven Spielberg (2005). This song was featured in Spring/Summer 2009 on the Vodafone adverts in the UK. This song was featured in the South Korean film, Night Flight, directed by Lee Song Hee-il (2014) The politician-spoofing BBC panel show If I Ruled the World was named after the song. Andy Hallett, the actor best known for playing the part of Lorne ('The Host') in the television series Angel, sang the song in that series' final episode. A cover of the song arranged by Jamie Stevens of Elephant Music underscored the 2023 trailer for the third season of The Morning Show. References External links Cyril Ornadel Lyrics 1963 songs 1965 singles Songs from musicals Tony Bennett songs James Brown songs Nancy Wilson (jazz singer) songs Songs written by Leslie Bricusse Works based on The Pickwick Papers Songs written by Cyril Ornadel
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Samuel Weller, or, The Pickwickians is an 1837 comedy in three acts adapted from Dickens's novel The Pickwick Papers by William Thomas Moncrieff. It was first performed at the Royal Strand Theatre in London on 17 July 1837. W. T. Moncrieff's 'Farcical Comedy' Sam Weller; or the Pickwickians opened at the Royal Strand Theatre in 1837 in a production directed by William John Hammond (1797–1848) and that ran for 80 performances before touring the provinces. The production was memorable for the Alfred Jingle of John Lee and the Sam Weller of Hammond. In the same year a production opened in New York and Philadelphia where it had a good run despite poor reviews. Dickens complained against this adaptation with Moncrieff defending his plagiarism in a long advertisement on the playbill in which he stated, 'Late experience has enabled him to bring Mr. Pickwick's affairs to a conclusion rather sooner than his gifted biographer has done, if not so satisfactorily as could be wished, at all events quite legally.' While Moncrieff had apologised to ‘Boz’ in his notes on the playbill this failed to placate Dickens, who caricatured Moncrieff as the 'literary gentleman' and actor-manager Vincent Crummles in his novel Nicholas Nickleby "who had dramatized in his time two hundred and forty-seven novels, as fast as they had come out – some of them faster than they had come out". Moncrieff's response was to plagiarise Nickleby in another production in 1839. At least four productions of Pickwick were being performed on the London stage while the novel was still being serialised, with Moncrieff's adaptation described as the most successful. As the title suggests, Moncrieff decided to focus on Sam Weller, the main comic character in the novel, rather than on Samuel Pickwick himself. The play had a revival at the New Strand Theatre in May and July 1838 with largely the original cast. The play was adapted in 1850 by Thomas Hailes Lacy as The Pickwickians; or the Peregrinations of Sam Weller as a comic drama in three acts in prose. Original cast Mr Pickwick (a single gentleman of Fortune, Founder of the Pickwick Club, seeking adventures in pursuit of Knowledge) - Mr A Younge Augustus Snodgrass, Esq., MPC (corresponding associate of the Pickwick Club) - Mr Melville Tracy Tupman, Esq., (ditto) - Mr E Burton Nathaniel Winkle, Esq., (ditto) - Mr Roberts Mr Wardle (A fine old English Gentleman, friend of Pickwick) - Mr George Cooke Mr Nupkins, Esq., (Mayor of Ipswich) - Mr Chicheley Mr Leo Hunter - Mr Nicholson Alfred Jingle, Esq., (A walking Gentleman, living on his wits) - Mr John Lee Mr Samuel Weller (the faithful attendant of Mr Pickwick) - Mr W. J. Hammond Mr Weller, sen. (A long short stage Coachman) - Mr H Hall Job Trotter (A very dubious character attendant on Mr. Jingle) - Mr Attwood Master Joseph Dumpling (A Corpulent young Gentleman, addicted to cold pudding and Somnambulism, officiating about the person of Mr. Wardle ) - Mr A Richardson Mr
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Cedric David Charles Dickens (24 September 1916 – 11 February 2006) was an English author and businessman, a great-grandson of Charles Dickens and the steward of his literary legacy. He was a lifelong supporter of the Charles Dickens Museum in Holborn, London, and twice President of the Dickens Fellowship. Biography Dickens was the son of Philip "Pip" Charles Dickens (1887–1964), a chartered accountant and the first secretary of ICI. He was the grandson of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, the eighth of Dickens's ten children, a Common Serjeant of London, and the nephew of Admiral Sir Gerald Charles Dickens. He attended Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating in Law in 1935. After three trips to the Caribbean by banana boat, Dickens joined the British Tabulating Machine Company in 1937. Dickens joined the RNVR on the outbreak of World War II in 1939, leaving the Royal Navy in 1946 as a first lieutenant. While serving in Portsmouth, he met his wife, Elizabeth Mary Blake (1913–2008), who was a WREN. They married in 1948. After leaving the Royal Navy, Dickens returned to his old firm, which eventually became ICL, of which he became Director of Communication. Dickens was a lifelong supporter of the Charles Dickens Museum in Holborn, and twice President of the Dickens Fellowship, a worldwide association, first taking the position on the death of his father, and again on his retirement in 1976, when he also founded the international Dickens Pickwick Club. This he kept true to the spirit of The Pickwick Papers by allowing only men to join, which led in 2000 to an accusation of sexism. In demand internationally as a guest and speaker at meetings of Dickens Fellowships and similar events, he also worked to preserve the heritage of the George and Vulture in the City of London, frequently mentioned in The Pickwick Papers, but then threatened with demolition. Charles Dickens himself had often drunk there. He also associated himself with Gads Hill Place in Kent, Dicken's final home, becoming a governor of Gad's Hill School, which occupies the building today. In 2005, he appeared in the first episode of BBC Four's documentary series Dickens in America with Miriam Margolyes, when he talked about what it was like growing up as a member of the Dickens family. Dickens suffered a severe stroke after emergency surgery and died on 11 February 2006, aged 89. His autobiography, My Life, appeared in 2016 to mark the centenary of his birth. This was assembled from Dickens's own writings by his daughter, Jane Monk, and Marion Dickens Lloyd, introduced by Margolyes and launched at the Charles Dickens Museum in September 2016. Publications Christmas With Dickens: The Dickens' Family's 150th Anniversary Gift of a Christmas Carol for Modern-Day Families at Yuletide, by Cedric Charles Dickens, David Dickens and Betty Dickens. Belvedere Press (1993) The Sayings of Charles Dickens, Cedric Charles Dickens (editor). Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd (2006) Drinking with Dickens, Cedric Charles Dickens. New Amsterdam Books (1988) The "George and Vulture" in Pickwick
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Nathaniel Winkle is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's first novel, The Pickwick Papers (1836). A founder and younger member of the Pickwick Club created by the retired businessman Samuel Pickwick, Winkle is a young friend of Pickwick's and, with Augustus Snodgrass and Tracy Tupman, his travelling companion. Although a city dweller Winkle considers himself an outdoor sportsman, though he turns out to be dangerously inept when handling horses and guns. His ineptitude, especially with guns, becomes a running joke throughout the novel. Aside from Mr Pickwick himself, Winkle is the most prominent and the most amusing of the Pickwickians. In the Preface to the first cheap edition of The Pickwick Papers (1847) Dickens wrote, "I connected Mr Pickwick with a club, because of the original suggestion [made by the publishers], and I put in Mr Winkle expressly for the use of Mr Seymour." Thus, the character of Winkle was introduced by Dickens into the Pickwick Papers as a nod to the original sporting theme of the novel as envisioned by Robert Seymour, the original illustrator. Seymour's idea was to create a magazine series of sporting illustrations with short written sketches linking them together around a 'Nimrod Club' of sporting people having adventures as the framework for his own sketches and illustrations. As the Pickwick Papers evolved under the pen of Dickens, and after the suicide of Seymour, Dickens had other ideas about how the plot should develop with the sporting tales becoming fewer and fewer, with the exception of Winkle, who boasts about his hunting skills (despite having none). According to Mr Pickwick, "the desire of earning fame in the sports of the field, the air and the water. was uppermost in the breast of his friend Winkle." However, Winkle is frightened at the thought of having to fight a duel with Dr Slammer, an experienced Army officer; manages to fall off a horse; accidentally shoots fellow Club member Tracy Tupman in the arm while hunting fowl; cannot play cricket and who cannot even ice skate. After Seymour subsequent illustrators have depicted Winkle in sporting gear, including Thomas Nast (above) in 1873 in which he drew Winkle standing with the loaded gun pointing at his head. At the trial of Bardell v. Pickwick his unfortunate reference to the "trifling occasion" of Mr Pickwick's escapade at the Great White Horse Inn in Ipswich involving Miss Witherfield is highly damaging to Pickwick's case. When leaving the witness box and realising that he had made a blunder, Winkle "rushed with delirious haste to the George and Vulture, where he was discovered some hours after, by the waiter, groaning in a hollow and dismal manner, with his head buried beneath the sofa cushions." Winkle is transformed when he finds happiness in his love for Arabella Allen and receives Pickwick's assistance in his courting of and eventual marriage to her, eloping with her despite strong opposition from Benjamin Allen, his bride's brother; from Bob Sawyer, his rival for her affections, and his own father.
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Tracy Tupman is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's first novel, The Pickwick Papers (1836). Although fat and middle-aged he considers himself a young lover and has an unfortunate amorous entanglement with the spinster Rachael Wardle. Background A founder and member of the Pickwick Club created by the retired businessman Samuel Pickwick, he is one of Pickwick's travelling companions along with Nathaniel Winkle and Augustus Snodgrass who extend their scientific researches into the quaint and curious phenomena of British rural life by travelling to locations far distant from London to report on their findings to the other "Pickwickians" remaining at home. Dickens describes him in Chapter One of The Pickwick Papers On Mr Pickwick's right sat Mr Tracy Tupman. This Mr Tupman had the wisdom and experience of mature years but added to this was the enthusiasm and strong emotions of a boy, because Mr Tupman suffered from the most interesting and pardonable of human weaknesses - love. Time and feeding had expanded his once romantic body; the black silk waistcoat had become larger and larger; inch by inch the gold watch-chain beneath that waistcoat had disappeared from Mr Tupman's sight; and gradually his chin had grown until it hid the white tie around his neck. But the soul of Tupman was completely unchanged - admiration of the fair sex was still the most important thing for him. He is accidentally shot in the arm while hunting fowl by the inept sportsman Nathaniel Winkle. Tupman woos Miss Wardle Despite being middle-aged and portly, Tupman is a flirtatious ladies' man who regularly falls in and out of love but who is never successful in affairs of the heart. Tupman falls in love with Mr. Wardle's wealthy spinster sister, Rachael Wardle, and, initially at least, she with he. The spinster aunt took up a large watering-pot which lay in one corner, and was about to leave the arbour. Mr. Tupman detained her, and drew her to a seat beside him. “Miss Wardle!” said he. The spinster aunt trembled, till some pebbles which had accidentally found their way into the large watering-pot shook like an infant’s rattle. “Miss Wardle,” said Mr. Tupman, “you are an angel.” “Mr. Tupman!” exclaimed Rachael, blushing as red as the watering-pot itself. “Nay,” said the eloquent Pickwickian—“I know it but too well.” “All women are angels, they say,” murmured the lady playfully. “Then what can you be; or to what, without presumption, can I compare you?” replied Mr. Tupman. “Where was the woman ever seen who resembled you? Where else could I hope to find so rare a combination of excellence and beauty? Where else could I seek to—Oh!” Here Mr. Tupman paused, and pressed the hand which clasped the handle of the happy watering-pot. The lady turned aside her head. “Men are such deceivers,” she softly whispered. “They are, they are,” ejaculated Mr. Tupman; “but not all men. There lives at least one being who can never change—one being who would be content to devote his whole
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The Pickwick Papers is a 1952 British historical comedy drama film written and directed by Noel Langley and starring James Hayter, James Donald, Nigel Patrick and Joyce Grenfell. It is based on the Charles Dickens’s 1837 novel of the same name. It was made by Renown Pictures who had successfully released another Dickens adaptation Scrooge the previous year. The film was made at the Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames. Shot in black-and-white, the film's sets were designed by the art director Frederick Pusey with costumes by Beatrice Dawson. It premiered at the Gaumont Cinema at Haymarket in London on 14 November 1952. In 1954, the Soviet Union paid £10,000 for the distribution rights, and it became the first British film to be shown in the Soviet Union after the Second World War, premiering on 29 July 1954 in a number of cities with a dubbed soundtrack. The film was followed a month later by a Russian reprint of Dickens' book, in 150,000 copies. Cast James Hayter as Samuel Pickwick James Donald as Nathaniel Winkle Nigel Patrick as Alfred Jingle Joyce Grenfell as Mrs. Leo Hunter Hermione Gingold as Miss Tompkins Hermione Baddeley as Mrs. Bardell Donald Wolfit as Sergeant Buzfuz Harry Fowler as Sam Weller Kathleen Harrison as Rachel Wardle Alexander Gauge as Tracy Tupman Lionel Murton as Augustus Snodgrass Diane Hart as Emily Wardle Joan Heal as Isabella Wardle William Hartnell as Irate Cabman Athene Seyler as Miss Witherfield Walter Fitzgerald as Mr. Wardle Mary Merrall as Grandma Wardle Cecil Trouncer as Mr. Justice Stareleigh Felix Felton as Dr. Slammer Hattie Jacques as Mrs Nupkins Sam Costa as Job Trotter Noel Purcell as Roker Raymond Lovell as Aide George Robey as Tony Weller Max Adrian as Aide Alan Wheatley as Fogg D. A. Clarke-Smith as Dodson Jack MacNaughton as Mr. Nupkins David Hannaford as Boy Gerald Campion as Joe, the Fat Boy June Thorburn as Arabella Allen Barry MacKay as Mr. Snubbins Joan Benham as Miss Tompkins' Companion Graeme Harper as Master Bardell Arthur Mullard as Onlooker Cyril Smith as Ostler Awards and nominations James Hayter was nominated for the BAFTA Best British Actor award in 1953 for his portrayal of Samuel Pickwick. The Pickwick Papers was awarded a Golden Bear in Berlin in 1954 In 1956, Beatrice Dawson was nominated for an Oscar for Best Costume Design, Black-and-White for the film's costumes. Critical reception Leonard Maltin gave the film three out of four stars, calling it a "Flavorful adaptation of Dickens' classic"; and TV Guide rated it three out of five stars, writing, "If ever a Dickens novel shouted to be filmed, it was The Pickwick Papers, and a jolly good job was done with this version...It's a very funny film with some of England's best light comedians and comediennes." Colourised version In 2012, a digitally restored and colourised version of the film was released on DVD, causing a renewed debate in the UK about colourisation of old black-and-white classics. References Bibliography Harper, Sue & Porter, Vincent. British Cinema
The Pickwick Papers (1952 film)