#pickwick papers

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Middle Temple Library's Past Exhibitions: Dickens' Legal World

Painting of Charles Dickens by William Powell Frith (1859). The original is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

In 2021, Middle Temple Library hosted an exhibition on one of the Inn's most famous past members: Charles Dickens’ Legal World.

Originally intended to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ death in 2020, the exhibition was rescheduled for 2021 due to the library’s closure during the Coronavirus pandemic.

The exhibition focuses on Dickens’ employment and engagements in the legal world, including his admission to The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in 1839 as a student.

Charles Dickens worked as a clerk and court reporter during a period of legal reform in the early Victorian era. His experience shaped some of his most famous works including The Pickwick Papers, Bleak House and Nicholas Nickleby. The Inns of Court are featured locations and the legal professionals he encountered inspired characters throughout his novels.

Illustration from Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1852-1854). Illustration by H. K. Browne

If you were unable to see the exhibition in person you can also enjoy this online presentation. These short films were created to demonstrate Dickens’ connections to the legal world and highlight some of his writings.

[your-fave-is-neurospicy]

alfred jingle from the pickwick papers had a traumatic brain injury and has aphasia (headcanon; altered speech canon)

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[jtownraindancer]

Anon here! idk how or why you started hunting down all of burn gorman's stuff, but as someone who grew up listening to him on the radio THANK YOUU!!!! Have you been able to find him in the pickwick papers??? My nan loved that one

Hello!

No I haven't yet, but at point I thought I had. Turns out it was an 80s recording with a VA that sounded very similar to him. :/

Unfortunately some of his radio work, short films, and TV specials are almost impossible to hunt down (there's a film with Angel Coulby I'm especially looking for), but I will keep trying to find them. :)

And yeah- I don't particularly remember what started all this either. I just woke up one day and was suddenly determined to start hunting frogs 🐸

(If you do happen to come across a copy and are willing to share Anon, I'd be forever grateful 🤎)

[wellconstructedsentences]

Oh, Sammy, Sammy, why vorn't there an alleybi?

Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

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George & Vulture, City of London

The George & Vulture is a restaurant/pub in the City of London. It was a favourite drinking spot of Charles Dickens and features heavily in his novel, the Pickwick Papers.

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Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens

Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers–-a comic masterpiece that catapulted its 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtor’s prison, characters & incidents sprang to life from Dickens’s pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour & literary invention.

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Was passiert !

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