Dickens' Women

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He runs a school and emphasises the importance of facts and figures over fancy to his students and his children. Redlaw, Professor A professor of chemistry who is visited by a phantom on Christmas Eve and given the gift of forgetting painful memories.

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Swiveller, Dick Friend of Fred Trent, Swiveller has designs to marry Fred's sister, Nell Trent, but is encouraged to wait until Nell has inherited her grandfather's money. He dupes Jonas Chuzzlewit into joining the company, uses Jonas to fleece Pecksniff, and is murdered by Jonas in Martin Chuzzlewit. He would later indignantly wonder that such a promising child should be thus wasted: “My father and mother were quite satisfied. Lorry, Jarvis A clerk in Tellson's bank who is instrumental in bringing Dr Manette, who is imprisoned in Paris, back to England.

Barsad, John (alias Solomon Pross) Barsad testifies against Charles Darnay at the treason trial at the Old Bailey. At the time of their creation, however, Dickens was emulating a popular impression of what a well-brought up young lady should be like.

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By that time the boy had gone through his own rough patch, having been employed as a 12-year-old at a shoe-blacking factory in London for 13 months, a spell of child labor necessitated by his improvident father’s having been jailed for debt. Ternan and her three daughters, pay court to Nelly, and demand that his children and friends toe the line about his relationship with her—or be eternally banished. Barnacle family, The Controls the Circumlocution Office, where everything goes round in circles, and nothing ever gets done. He saw both these women as victims of a cruel society which allowed men to behave in one way and expected women to behave in another. Tappertit, Simon Locksmith Gabriel Varden's apprentice who is in love with Gabriel's daughter, Dolly.

Havisham, Miss is the ghastly guardian of Estella at Satis House, who on a "sick fancy" invites Pip, via Mr Pumblechook, to come and play cards. Diver meets Mark and Martin on board the Screw and directs them to Pawkins boarding house in Martin Chuzzlewit. Bray, Madeline Girl with whom Nicholas falls in love when he first sees her at an employment office. Belle Scrooge's former fiancée who left him after his obsession with wealth eclipsed his love for her.

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And there is some question about whether he felt so confident in Nelly’s virtue because she would not sleep with him. Pocket, Matthew Matthew Pocket is Miss Havisham's cousin, who warned her that Compeyson was using her for her money, and then fell out of her favor. Nevertheless, his defense of the poor and the dispossessed was genuinely felt, as were his philanthropic labors to bring sex workers out of the gutter and into respectable society (usually through emigration to the colonies).Magnus is on the way to propose to Miss Witherfield, but Pickwick causes a falling-out between the two after a misunderstanding involving Pickwick blundering into the wrong room in the inn where they are staying. He is upset at John Jasper's advances to Rosa and finds her lodging in London at an apartment owned by Mrs Billickin. Greedy and tight-fisted business man who breeds these same qualities into his son, Jonas, who tries to poison him for his trouble in Martin Chuzzlewit. He becomes a leader of the rioters during the Gordon Riots and during the fighting loses his slender legs, long his pride and joy. It’s not only the foolish marriage, the more foolish separation, and the May-December romance with Nelly, but also what we’ve only touched on here: the gargantuan egoism.