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List of Dickensian characters

Index List of Dickensian characters

This is a list of characters in the works of Charles Dickens. [1]

70 relations: A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, Abel Magwitch, Alexandre Manette, Artful Dodger, Barnaby Rudge, Baronet, Beadle, Betsey Trotwood, Bill Sikes, Bleak House, Bow Street Runners, Breach of promise, By-election, Character (arts), Charles Dickens, Charley Bates, Corporal punishment, Crossing sweeper, David Copperfield, David Copperfield (character), Dombey and Son, Dora Spenlow, Duke of Rutland, Ebenezer Scrooge, Edward Murdstone, Election agent, Elopement, Estella (Great Expectations), Fagin, Great Expectations, Hard Times (novel), Ironmaster, Jacob Marley, James Steerforth, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, John Wemmick, Lady's maid, Leigh Hunt, Little Dorrit, Martin Chuzzlewit, Master of ceremonies, Nancy (Oliver Twist), Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Twist, Oliver Twist (character), Opium, Our Mutual Friend, Peggotty, Progeria, ..., Quilp, Samuel Pickwick, Sarah Gamp, Spontaneous human combustion, Starvation, Steerage (deck), Sydney Carton, The Battle of Life, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, The Mudfog Papers, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Pickwick Papers, Uriah Heep, Vladimir Nabokov, Walter Savage Landor, Ward (law), Wilkins Micawber. Expand index (20 more) »

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843; the first edition was illustrated by John Leech.

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A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.

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Abel Magwitch

Abel Magwitch is a fictional character from Charles Dickens's 1861 novel, Great Expectations.

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Alexandre Manette

Doctor Alexandre Manette is a character in Charles Dickens' novel, A Tale of Two Cities.

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Artful Dodger

Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, is a character in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist.

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Barnaby Rudge

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens.

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Baronet

A baronet (or; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the rare female equivalent, a baronetess (or; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, an hereditary title awarded by the British Crown.

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Beadle

Beadle, sometimes spelled "bedel", is an official of a church or synagogue who may usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties.

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Betsey Trotwood

Betsey Trotwood is a fictional character from Charles Dickens' 1850 novel David Copperfield.

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Bill Sikes

William "Bill" Sikes is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

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Bleak House

Bleak House is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853.

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Bow Street Runners

The Bow Street Runners have been called London's first professional police force.

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Breach of promise

Breach of promise is a common law tort, abolished in many jurisdictions.

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By-election

By-elections, also spelled bye-elections (known as special elections in the United States, and bypolls in India), are used to fill elected offices that have become vacant between general elections.

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Character (arts)

A character (sometimes known as a fictional character) is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, television series, film, or video game).

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Charley Bates

Charley Bates is a supporting character in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist.

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Corporal punishment

Corporal punishment or physical punishment is a punishment intended to cause physical pain on a person.

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Crossing sweeper

A crossing sweeper was a person who would sweep a path ahead of people crossing dirty urban streets in exchange for a gratuity.

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David Copperfield

David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens.

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David Copperfield (character)

David Copperfield, Jr. is the protagonist after which the 1850 Charles Dickens novel, David Copperfield, was named.

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Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in monthly parts from 1 October 1846 to 1 April 1848 and in one volume in 1848.

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Dora Spenlow

Dora Spenlow is a character in the novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

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Duke of Rutland

Duke of Rutland is a title in the Peerage of England, derived from Rutland, a county in the East Midlands of England.

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Ebenezer Scrooge

Ebenezer Scrooge is the protagonist of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol.

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Edward Murdstone

Edward Murdstone (commonly known as Mr. Murdstone) is a fictional character and one of the primary antagonists in the first part of the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield.

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Election agent

In elections in the United Kingdom, as well as in certain other similar political systems such as India's, an election agent is the person legally responsible for the conduct of a candidate's political campaign and to whom election material is sent to by those running the election.

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Elopement

To elope, most literally, means to run away and to not come back to the point of origin.

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Estella (Great Expectations)

Estella Havisham (best known in literature simply as Estella) is a significant character in the Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations.

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Fagin

Fagin is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist.

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip.

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Hard Times (novel)

Hard Times – For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854.

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Ironmaster

An ironmaster is the manager, and usually owner, of a forge or blast furnace for the processing of iron.

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Jacob Marley

Jacob Marley is a fictional character who appears in Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.

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James Steerforth

James Steerforth is a character in the novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

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Jarndyce and Jarndyce

Jarndyce and Jarndyce (or Jarndyce v Jarndyce) is a fictional court case in Bleak House (1852-3) by Charles Dickens, progressing in the English Court of Chancery.

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John Wemmick

John Wemmick is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations.

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Lady's maid

A lady's maid is a female personal attendant who waits on the lady of the house, and is a position very similar to a gentleman's valet.

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Leigh Hunt

James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 178428 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet.

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Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857.

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Martin Chuzzlewit

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels.

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Master of ceremonies

A master of ceremonies, abbreviated M.C. or emcee, also called compère and announcer, is the official host of a ceremony, a staged event or similar performance.

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Nancy (Oliver Twist)

Nancy is a fictional character in the novel Oliver Twist and its numerous theatre, television and motion picture adaptations.

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Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby; or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens.

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Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is author Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837–39.

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Oliver Twist (character)

Oliver Twist is the title character and protagonist of the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

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Opium

Opium (poppy tears, with the scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (scientific name: Papaver somniferum).

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Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864–65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis.

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Peggotty

The Peggotty family are fictional characters in Charles Dickens's 1850 novel David Copperfield.

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Progeria

Progeria is an extremely rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder in which symptoms resembling aspects of aging are manifested at a very early age.

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Quilp

Daniel Quilp is one of the main antagonists in the novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, written in 1840.

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Samuel Pickwick

Samuel Pickwick is a fictional character and the main protagonist in The Pickwick Papers (1836), the first novel by author Charles Dickens.

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Sarah Gamp

Sarah or Sairey Gamp is a nurse in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, first published as a serial in 1843–1844.

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Spontaneous human combustion

Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is a term encompassing reported cases of the combustion of a living (or very recently deceased) human body without an apparent external source of ignition.

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Starvation

Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake, below the level needed to maintain an organism's life.

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Steerage (deck)

Steerage is the lower deck of a ship, where the cargo is stored above the closed hold.

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Sydney Carton

Sydney Carton is a central character in Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities.

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The Battle of Life

The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846.

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The Chimes

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol and one year before The Cricket on the Hearth.

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The Cricket on the Hearth

The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home is a novella by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans, and released 20 December 1845 with illustrations by Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and Edwin Henry Landseer.

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The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time (better known as The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain or simply as The Haunted Man) is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848.

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The Mudfog Papers

The Mudfog Papers was written by Charles Dickens and published from 1837 to 1838 in the monthly literary journal Bentley's Miscellany, which he was then editing.

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens.

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The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop is one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from 1840 to 1841.

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The Pickwick Papers

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens's first novel.

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Uriah Heep

Uriah Heep is a fictional character created by Charles Dickens in his novel David Copperfield.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist.

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Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor (30 January 1775 – 17 September 1864) was an English writer and poet.

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Ward (law)

In law, a ward is someone placed under the protection of a legal guardian.

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Wilkins Micawber

Wilkins Micawber is a clerk in Charles Dickens's 1850 novel David Copperfield.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dickensian_characters

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