During their visit to Eatanswill the Pickwickians are invited to a costume party given by the local literary lioness, Mrs.

Pott, the editor of a partisan newspaper, and Winkle unwittingly becomes involved in Pott's domestic fights. Pickwick and his friends go to Eatanswill to witness an election, which is both violent and nonsensical. Bardell soon starts a breach-of-promise suit against Mr. Pickwick are prey for widows, because Mrs. Tony's wife has taken up with a hypocritical, alcoholic evangelist and makes life miserable for her husband until her death. Sam Weller's father, Tony, a coachman who had the misfortune to marry a widow, provides a running commentary through the novel on the dangers of matrimony. Bardell faints in his arms just as Tupman, Snodgrass, and Winkle enter - a compromising circumstance. Bardell, that he has taken on a servant, she assumes from the ambiguous way he puts it that he intends to marry her. Pickwick tells his widowed landlady, Mrs. Sam is a cockney man of the world: witty, intelligent, handy with his fists. Pickwick comes across Sam Weller, a boot cleaner and general handyman whom he takes on as a valet. Perker, they buy off Jingle and save Rachael Wardle from an unhappy marriage. Wardle pursue Jingle and Rachael to London, where, with the help of a lawyer, Mr. However, Tupman is outsmarted by the vivacious, unscrupulous Jingle, who elopes with Rachael.

Snodgrass falls in love with his daughter, Emily. Wardle's spinster sister, Rachael and Mr. Wardle's Manor Farm, where they enjoy card games, flirting, storytelling, hunting, and a cricket match. Wardle, a country squire who invites them to his estate at Dingley Dell. Slammer, a hot-tempered army man.Īt Chatham, the Pickwickians watch army maneuvers, get buffeted about, and meet Mr. Jingle is an adventurer interested in wealthy women, and on this first trip he involves the innocent Winkle in a duel with Dr. They are rescued by Alfred Jingle, who travels with them to Rochester. The Pickwickians meet to begin their first journey and get knocked about by an angry cabman, who thinks they are informers, while an angry crowd gathers. Pickwick, a kindly retired businessman and philosopher whose thoughts never rise above the commonplace Tracy Tupman, a ladies' man who never makes a conquest Augustus Snodgrass, a poet who never writes a poem and Nathaniel Winkle, a sportsman of tremendous ineptitude. In May 1827, the Pickwick Club of London, headed by Samuel Pickwick, decides to establish a traveling society in which four members journey about England and make reports on their travels.

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