CHARACTER SUMMARY
Samuel Pickwick: a philosopher of life and founding member of the Pickwick Club
Tracy Tupman: a fat, epicure and a member of the Pickwick Club who fancies himself a lady’s man
Augustus Snodgrass: a member of the Pickwick Club and a poet of sorts
Nathaniel Winkle: a member of the Pickwick Club and a sportsman of sorts
Mr. Blotton: a member of the Pickwick Club who is at odds with Mr. Pickwick for the sake of being contrary
Cab driver: Mr. Pickwick’s cab driver who takes exception to Mr. Pickwick documenting their conversation to the extent of physically assaulting Mr. Pickwick
Stranger: a actor who prefers anonymity and who comes to the rescue of Mr. Pickwick & Co during a brawl instigated by the cab driver and who eventually identifies himself as Alfred Jingle
Mrs. Budger: a rich widow who dances with the stranger, making Dr. Slammer, who is keen on her affections, envious
Dr. Slammer: a busybody who is intent on wooing Mrs. Budger
Lieutenant Tappleton: Dr. Slammer’s confidante
Dr. Payne: Dr. Slammer’s friend who is wont to be blunt
Dismal Jemmy: the stranger’s actor friend who relates “The Stroller’s Tale”
Mr. Wardle: the father to Emily and Isabella and brother to Miss Rachael Wardle whose hospitality the Pickwickians can’t help but to graciously receive
Miss Rachael Wardle: the spinster aunt to Emily and Isabella and brother to Mr. Wardle who takes a liking to Mr. Tupman
Emily Wardle: one of Mr. Wardle’s daughters whose one defect, according to Aunt Rachael, is her boldness
Isabella Wardle: the other of Mr. Wardle’s daughters whose one defect, according to Aunt Rachael, is her habit of stooping
Mr. Trundle: a gentleman in Mr. Wardle’s company who courts Isabella Wardle
Fat boy: an able servant, named Joe, who is employed by the Wardles and who has a propensity to sleep that is uncommon
Waiter: a waiter waiting on the Pickwickians at the Rochester inn
Hostler: the man who provides the Pickwickians with their mode of transport to Dingley Dell
Red-headed man: an employee of a roadside public house
Missus: a woman who is the owner of the roadside public who rejects the Pickwickians’ request to have their horse kept there for safekeeping
Emma: a servant at Mr. Wardle’s manor who rejects Mr. Tupman’s advances
Mr. Wardle’s Mother: a very old lady who is fond of playing whist and who has many infirmities the most pronounced of which is her poor hearing which nonetheless tends to improve when playing whist
Old Gentleman: the bald-headed, good humored clergyman of Dingley Dell who relates the story “The Convict’s Return,” in addition to reciting the song “The Ivy Green”
Mr. Miller: a hard-headed man who is unfortunate at whist and who falls asleep during the Old Gentleman’s recitation of “The Ivy Green”
John Edmunds: the repentant convict in the Old Gentleman’s story “The Convict’s Return”
Edmunds: John Edmund’s father who abuses his wife mercilessly for which he is shunned by all
Mrs. Edmunds: the saintly wife and mother to Edmunds and John, respectively
Mr. Dumkins: an exceptional All-Muggleton cricket player
Mr. Podder: another exceptional All-Muggleton cricket player
Mr. Luffer: a Dingley Dell cricket player who acts as vice during the after-match meal/festivities
Post-boys: the boys operating the post-chaise in which Mr. Wardle and Mr. Pickwick give chase to Mr. Jingle who has run off with the spinster aunt
Samuel Weller: a prolix employee at the White Hart whose main duty is shining boots and shoes and delivering them to the inns’ patrons and who is eventually employed by Mr. Pickwick as a personal assistant
Mr. Perker: a little man who is Mr. Wardle’s attorney
Laboring man: a cottage resident of Cobham, Kent, who sells Mr. Pickwick the stone with the inscriptions, which brings Mr. Pickwick much renown
Madman: the author and the mad protagonist of a manuscript that the Dingley Dell clergyman entrusts Mr. Pickwick with
Madman’s wife: the woman who is forced to marry the madman on account of the madman’s wealth and her family’s penury and who ends up becoming mad herself before dying
Soldier: the madman’s wife’s brother who has become a soldier through madman’s wealth but who censures the madman nonetheless for contributing to his—the soldier’s--sister’s death, never mind his own greater role in killing his sister
Mrs. Martha Bardell: Mr. Pickwick’s widowed landlady who harbors romantic feelings for her lodger
Master Bardell: Mrs. Bardell’s son who attacks Mr. Pickwick mistakenly thinking that Mr. Pickwick had harmed his mother
Samuel Slumkey: Eatanswill’s Blue faction candidate for the seat in Parliament
Horatio Fizkin, Esq.: Eatanswill’s Buff faction candidate for the seat in Parliament
Mr. Pott: Editor of the Eatanswill Gazette which is partial to the Blue faction
Mrs. Pott: wife of Mr. Pott who doesn’t mind hosting Mr. Pickwick and Mr. Winkle and who is fed up with her husband’s politicking
Mayor: mayor of Eatanswill who openly declares his allegiance to Samuel Slumkey and the Blue faction
One-eyed man: a stout, hale visitor at the Peacock who tells the story entitled “The Bagman’s Story”
Tom Smart: the protagonist of the one-eyed man’s story who marries the buxom widow of a roadside inn, spoiling the villainous intrigues of Jinkins
Old chair/ugly, old gentleman: a chair in Tom Smart’s room at the roadside inn which metamorphoses into an ugly old gentleman and which urges Tom Smart to marry the buxom widow of the roadside inn
Buxom widow: the roadside inn keeper who is dissuaded from marrying Jinkins and who marries Tom Smart instead
Jinkins: a tall man who is married and has six kids but who nonetheless has designs on marrying the buxom widow (for her money)
Mr. Leo Hunter: an Eatanswill personage who invites the Pickwickians and the Potts to a masked ball on behalf of his wife Mrs. Leo Hunter
Mrs. Leo Hunter: Mr. Leo Hunter’s wife, an Eatanswill personage, and the author of the poem “Ode to an Expiring Frog”
Count Smorltork: a famous foreigner who is gathering materials for a learned study about England and who is present at Mrs. Leo Hunter’s masked ball
Job Trotter: the big-headed and mulberry-colored suit wearing man-servant to Mr. Alfred Jingle/Mr. Charles Fitz-Marshall who sends Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller on a goose chase
Miss Tomkins: the lady of the Westgate House establishment for Young Ladies
Nathaniel Pipkin: the protagonist of Sam Weller’s story who is a modest parish clerk and who aspires to marry Maria Lobbs, the daughter of the great saddler old Lobbs
Maria Lobbs: Nathaniel Pipkin’s beloved who marries her male cousin instead
Kate: Maria Lobb’s arch, impudent-looking bewitching female cousin
Old Lobbs: the town’s resident, fierce-tempered saddler who is Maria Lobb’s father and who is rumored to have hoarded a substantial wealth
Male cousin: Kate’s brother and Maria’s cousin who protects Nathaniel Pipkin from old Lobbs and who eventually marries Maria Lobbs
Goodwin: Mrs. Pott’s handmaiden and “bodyguard”
Martin: tall gamekeeper and guide to the party of shooters which include the Pickwickians and Mr. Wardle
Captain Boldwig: fierce little man and landowner who has the sleeping Mr. Pickwick incarcerated for trespassing
Jackson: clerk at Dodson and Fogg law offices
Dodson: a plump, portly, and stern looking lawyer
Fogg: lawyer who is an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man
Mr. Weller Senior: Sam Weller’s father who is a coachman and who clues in Mr. Pickwick to Job Trotter and Alfred Jingle’s current location
Mr. Lowten: Mr. Perker’s law clerk
Jack Bamber: an old man of Mr. Lowten’s party who is perpetually silent unless the subject of being a resident in London’s inns is the topic
Heyling: the protagonist in Jack Bamber’s story who exacts revenge on his father-in-law for imprisoning him in a debtor’s prison and thereby causing the premature deaths of his wife and son
Mary: Heyling’s wife in Jack Bamber’s story
Mr. Peter Magnus: Mr. Pickwick’s fellow red-haired traveler who is obsessed with the security of his luggage and who is going to Ipswich to propose to a lady
Miss Witherfield: middle-aged lady from the country who agrees to marry Mr. Peter Magnus and who has Mr. Pickwick and Mr. Tupman arrested
George Nupkins, Esquire: principal magistrate of Ipswich who authorizes a warrant for Mr. Pickwick’s and Mr. Tupman’s arrests
Mr. Grummer: the Ipswich beadle who arrests Mr. Pickwick and Mr. Tupman
Mr. Muzzle: the Magistrate’s servant and the cook’s significant other
Mr. Jinks: the Magistrate’s obsequious assistant
Mrs. Nupkins: the Magistrate’s wife
Henrietta Nupkins: the Magistrate’s daughter
Mary: a pretty servant in the Magistrate’s service who falls in love with Sam Weller
Mrs. Cluppins: a little, brisk, busy-looking friend of Mrs. Bardell
Mrs. Sanders: a big, fat, heavy faced friend of Mrs. Bardell
Mrs. Weller: Sam Weller’s mother-in-law who bartends at the Marquis and Granby
Mr. Stiggins: the red-nosed deputy shepherd who cadges off Mrs. Weller and the public at large
Arabella Allen: a young lady with black eyes who is a guest at Mr. Wardle’s Manor Farm during Christmas and on whom Mr. Winkle dotes
Gabriel Grub: a surly, ill-humored sexton and protagonist of Mr. Wardle’s mother’s story
Benjamin Allen: Arabella Allen’s brother and a medical student who’s come to Manor Farm to accompany his sister home
Bob Sawyer: a medical student and friend of Benjamin Allen
Mr. Watty: an importune, bankrupt client of Mr. Perker
Serjeant Snubbin: the ill-kempt barrister who will argue Mr. Pickwick’s case in court
Betsy: a general help who sees to the needs of the tenants in Mr. and Mrs. Raddle’s building
Mrs. Raddle: Bob Sawyer’s cross landlady
Jack Hopkins: Bob Sawyer and Ben Allen’s medical student friend who is full of talk about the fantastic incidents the typical medical student is privy to in his hospital rounds
Mr. Anthony Hum: the president of the Brick Lane Branch of the United Grand Junction Ebenezer Temperance Association
Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz: Mrs. Bardell’s trial lawyer
Mr. Skimpin: Mr. Buzfuz’s assistant
Mr. Justice Starleigh: the short, fat presiding judge of Bardell vs. Pickwick
Thomas Goffen: a chemist who insists on being excused from jury duty to no avail
Mr. Dowler: a gruff, fierce man who was formerly an army man and who is Mr. Pickwick’s fellow traveler to Bath
Angelo Cyrus Bantam, Esquire, MC: Mr. Dowler’s friend whose dress and manners are excessively elaborate
King Lud: King of Britain and the father of Prince Bladud in Mr. Pickwick’s journal entry “The True Legend of Prince Bladud
Prince Bladud: the protagonist in Mr. Pickwick’s journal entry who is responsible for the salubrious waters of Bath
Mrs. Carddock: the landlady of the Royal Crescent
Mr. John Smauker: Bantam’s powder-headed footman who invites Sam Weller to the Bath footmen’s “swarry”
Mr. Tuckle: a footman with a cocked hat who gets thoroughly drunk at the footmen’s soiree thanks to Sam’s bowl of hot punch
Groom: the surly, sullen groom in the service of Miss Arabella Allen’s aunt from whom Sam Weller doesn’t even obtain a friendly greeting
Scientific Gentleman: a man who notices Mr. Pickwick’s lantern and incorrectly surmises that it’s an electric phenomenon
Pruffle: the scientific gentleman’s servant who thinks Mr. Pickwick’s lantern signifies thieves
Namby: the gorgeously dressed sheriff deputy who serves Mr. Pickwick notice of his arrest
Smouch: Namby’s shabbily dressed assistant who escorts Mr. Pickwick to Namby’s office
Mr. Tom Roker: the Fleet Prison turnkey who lets Mr. Pickwick a spare bed
Zephyr: the clownish inmate at Fleet who plucks off Mr. Pickwick’s nightcap and puts it on his own head
Smangle: a tall Fleet inmate with whiskers who has a rascally vagabond’s air about him
Solomon Pell: a fat, flabby, pale attorney through whom Sam and his father contrive to have Sam incarcerated in Fleet Prison
George: Mr. Weller senior’s associate who is on trial for insolvency
Cobbler: a Fleet Prison inmate with whom Sam Weller rooms
Chancery Prisoner: the man from whom Mr. Pickwick rents a room at Fleet Prison and who dies shortly after Mr. Pickwick rents the room
Mrs. Mary Ann Raddle: the vixenish wife of Mr. Raddle
Mr. Raddle: Mrs. Raddle’s husband who has a habit of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time
Aunt: Arabella and Ben Allen’s old aunt in whose Bristol residence Arabella is confined to
Uncle: one-eyed Bagman’s uncle of whom the one-eyed Bagman tells a story involving mail coaches, a French nobleman and villain, and a beautiful dark eyed lady
Beautiful dark eyed lady: the lady to whom the Bagman’s uncle vows eternal fidelity in the Bagman’s story
Marquess of Filletville: the villain who abducts the beautiful dark eyed lady in the one-eyed bagman’s story
Mr. Winkle, Senior: Mr. Winkle’s stern, businesslike father who is, by profession, an operator of a commercial wharf
Mr. Slurk: Mr. Pott’s counterpart and editor of the Buff party supported newspaper the Independent, who gets into a verbal and physical tussle with Mr. Pott at the Saracen’s Head inn kitchen
Wilkins Flasher, Esquire: stock-broker who converts Mr. Weller and Sam’s inheritance into money
Frank Simmery, Esquire: a stock-broker with whom Wilkins Flasher, Esquire makes wagers about one thing or another