Top image: Still from the 1938 film A Christmas Carol with Leo G. Carroll as Jacob Marley’s ghost and Reginald Owen as Ebenezer Scrooge.
Bottom image: Frederick Jensen as Mr Micawber in the 1935 film David Copperfield. Micawber is said to be based on Dickens’s father.
Source: The Guardian, “Charles Dickens’s characters come to life – in pictures”.About Charles Dickens’s Characters:
Dickens’s friend and biographer, John Forster, once said that he made “characters real existences, not by describing them but by letting them describe themselves.”
T. S. Eliot observed that “Dickens’s figures belong to poetry, like figures of Dante or Shakespeare, in that a single phrase, either by them or about them, may be enough to set them wholly before us.”
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Bazzard: My favourite Charles Dickens character
Bazzard - from The Mystery of Edwin Drood - is emblematic of all those who hang about in the shadows and he is the twenty-fifth in the Telegraph pick of the best Charles Dickens characters.
Sir Leicester Dedlock: My favourite Charles Dickens character
Sir Leicester Dedlock - from Bleak House - is a fuddy-duddy hereditary knight but Charles Dickens’s makes you respect him. He is the nineteenth in the Telegraph pick of the best Charles Dickens characters.
Mr Brownlow: My favourite Charles Dickens character
Mr Brownlow - from Oliver Twist - is one of Dickens’s most decent fellows and is the nineteenth in the Telegraph pick of the best Charles Dickens characters.
Bill Sikes: My favourite Charles Dickens character
Bill Sikes - from Oliver Twist - is one of Dickens’s nastiest characters and is the eighteenth in the Telegraph pick of the best Charles Dickens characters.
Sarah Gamp: My favourite Charles Dickens character
Sarah Gamp - from Martin Chuzzlewit - is one of Charles Dickens’s best grotesques and is the fourteenth in the Telegraph pick of the best Charles Dickens characters.
Joe Gargery: My favourite Charles Dickens character
Joe Gargery - from Great Expectations, is one of Charles Dickens’s most honest, good-natured ‘heroes’ and is the thirteenth in the Telegraph pick of the best Charles Dickens characters.
Charles Dickens’s 200th birthday: Name your #ModernDickensBooks
Google is celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens with a special Google Doodle featuring all of the author’s most important characters. But what would those characters — say, Ebenezer Scrooge or Oliver Twist — be like in the present day?
Ebenezer Scrooge voted most popular Charles Dickens character
Seven out of the top 10 characters chosen by Penguin readers were villains or some of Dickens’ darker creations, with vengeful Miss Havisham from Great Expectations coming second.
Charles Dickens's minor characters are no small matter
The diverse and disordered world of his novels contains figures we see in just a phrase or two, but are as vivid as any in fiction
Charles Dickens's characters – in pictures
Opening a year-long celebration marking the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’s birth, a guide in words and pictures to some of the most vivid personalities in literature, from Miss Havisham to Mr Micawber, the Artful Dodger to Little Nell. Buy the Observer on Sunday to get a large wall-friendly version
Why poke fun at Charles Dickens?
Charles Dickens is a genuine national treasure, his works read by millions and the television adaptations usually ratings hits. But his novels and characters are also ripe for satire, says Gareth Edwards.
Dickens’ Dream
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Did you know that Dickens created 13,000 characters? That’s a character a day for the whole of his working life. What have I done today?
Nick Hornby (via amandakaychicago)
