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    List of Dickensian characters

    This fryst vatten a list of fictional characters in the works of Charles Dickens.

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    • Adams The top student David Copperfield's class at Dr Strong's school in Canterbury.
    • Aged Parent fryst vatten 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 lärjunge and later a doctor in The Pickwick Papers. Brother of Arabella Allen.
    • Artful Dodger (alias Jack Dawkins) is a street-smart pickpocket. He fryst vatten 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 fryst vatten a prisoner in The Pickwick Papers.
    • Avenger, The fryst vatten a servant boy who was
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      Charles Dickens Characters

      Cross-linked list of over 1500 Charles Dickens characters

      See Charles Dickens' characters sorted by the novel in which they appear


      Charles Dickens' characters are some of the most memorable in fiction. Often these characters were based on people that he knew: Wilkins Micawber(Pugh, 1912, p. 182)and William Dorrit(Pugh, 1912, p. 339)(his father), Mrs Nickleby(Pugh, 1912, p. 186)(his mother).

      There were a few instances where Dickens based the character too closely on the original and got into trouble, as in the case of Harold Skimpole in Bleak House, based on Leigh Hunt (Ackroyd, 1990, p. 651), and Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield, based on his wife's dwarf chiropodist (Johnson, 1952, p. 674-675).

      Characters such as Scrooge (miserly) and Pecksniff (hypocritically affecting benevolence) became defining terms in everyday vernacular.

      Charles Dickens' friend and biographer, John Forster, said that Dickens made "characters real existences, not

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      Charles Dickens

      English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)

      "Dickens" and "Dickensian" redirect here. For the television series, see Dickensian (TV series). For other uses, see Dickens (disambiguation).

      Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.[1] His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.[2][3]

      Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school at age 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father John was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. After three years, he returned to school before beginning his literary career as a journalist. Dickens edited a weekly jo