Pickwickian Studies

This ancient Inn is associated with some pleasant and diverting Pickwickian memories. We think of the adventure with "the lady in the yellow curl papers" and the double-bedded r...

Bath, which already owed so much to famous writers, was destined to owe even more to Boz, the genial author of "Pickwick"--a book which has so much increased the gaiety of the n...

Here is a very pleasing and natural group of persons, in whom it is impossible not to take a deep interest. They are like some amiable family that we have known. Old Wardle, as...

Mr. Pickwick, as we know, retired to end his days at peaceful Dulwich--placid and tranquil as his own amiable heart. It is as certain as though we had been living there and had...

The little Theatre here must be interesting to us from the fact of Jingle's having been engaged to play there with the officers of the 52nd Regiment on the night of May 15th, 18...

This gentleman, as we know, was the affianced husband of Isabella Wardle, and to the scenes of their marriage, the festivities, &c., we owe some pleasing incidents. Trundle was...

We had a narrow escape of losing our Pickwick and his familiar type. The original notion was to have "a tall, long, thin man," and only for the late Edward Chapman, who providen...

The truculent Dowler figured before in "The Tuggs at Ramsgate"--a very amusing and Pickwickian tale--under the title of Capt. Waters, who exhibits the same simulated ferocity an...

This was a common form of social meeting, and we find in the memoirs of Adolphus and John Taylor and Frederick Reynolds descriptions of the "Keep the Line," "The Finish," and ot...

This young girl--to whom a touching interest attached from her being so prematurely cut off--was a most interesting creature, one of three sisters, daughters of Mr. George Hogar...

One of the remarkable things associated with "Pickwick" is its autobiographical character, as it might be termed, and the amount of the author's personal experience which is fou...

In the animated journey, from Bristol to Birmingham, the travellers stopped at various posting-houses where the mercurial Sawyer would insist on getting down to lunch, dine, or...

Few things have been more interesting to the Pickwickian, or have done more to elevate Pickwickian study, than this celebrated _jeu d'esprit_. Calverley, or Blayds--his original...

A question that has often exercised ingenious folk is, why did Mr. Pickwick choose to live in Goswell Street? rather, why did Boz select such a quarter for him? Of course, at th...

The situation and real name of Muggleton has always been a hotly debated point; many have been the speculations and many the suggestions as to the original. I was once inclined...