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    monthly instalments. Characters in this novel gained fame, including Pecksniff and Mrs Gamp. Like nearly all of Dickens's novels, Martin Chuzzlewit was...
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  • as The Bill, in November 1994, Chambers portrayed the role of Charity Pecksniff in the television serialisation of the Charles Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit...
    18 KB (1,477 words) - 10:56, 1 May 2024
  • as an architect, studying with hypocritical, dishonest architect Seth Pecksniff, who lives with his two daughters Charity and Mercy and good, kind-hearted...
    7 KB (627 words) - 23:05, 5 February 2024
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    Award-winning Faith in the Future (1995–1998). In 1994, she played Mercy (Merry) Pecksniff in the BBC production of Martin Chuzzlewit. From 1992 to 2012, Sawalha...
    21 KB (1,273 words) - 02:12, 8 June 2024
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    Thompson. He first gained critical acclaim with his appearance as Seth Pecksniff in the BBC's 1994 adaptation of Martin Chuzzlewit based on the Charles...
    45 KB (2,535 words) - 08:26, 5 June 2024
  • Daughter (1842) "A Word in Season" (1844) "All Hail to the Vessel of Pecksniff the Sire" and "It May Lighten and Storm" (from Martin Chuzzlewit) (1844)...
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    put on my whole establishment of mutes, and mutes come very dear, Mr Pecksniff". The main function of a funeral mute was to stand around at funerals...
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    Martin, cousin of Pecksniff, brother of Anthony, uncle of Jonas. Martin is suspicious of his hypocritical close relatives, chiefly Pecksniff, whose hypocrisy...
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  • Thumbnail for Mr. Pecksniff Fetches the Doctor
    Mr. Pecksniff Fetches the Doctor (AKA: Oh, What a Surprise!) is a 1904 British short silent comedy film, directed by Robert W. Paul, featuring a man woken...
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  • Thumbnail for British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
    Tigg BBC Two Paul Scofield Old Martin Chuzzlewitt Tom Wilkinson Seth Pecksniff 1996 (42nd) Robbie Coltrane Cracker Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald ITV Colin...
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    from the Chicago Tribune (1958) Lippman, Theo Jr, ed. (1975), A Gang of Pecksniffs: And Other Comments on Newspaper Publishers, Editors and Reporters. Rodgers...
    55 KB (6,212 words) - 04:37, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Royal Doulton figurines
    Harradine 1922 1932 HN534 Fagin Dark brown Leslie Harradine 1922 1932 HN535 Pecksniff (Style One) Brown Leslie Harradine 1922 1932 HN536 Stiggins Black Leslie...
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  • a empress of the Methuselahs in the anime series Trinity Blood Seth Pecksniff, a character in the Charles Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit Seth Sorenson...
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  • Thumbnail for William Empson
    peculiarly stifling form to take possession of critics of Eng. Lit.; Mr Pecksniff has become the patron saint of many of my colleagues. As so often, the...
    31 KB (4,537 words) - 21:28, 29 November 2023
  • Pavlovian – Ivan Pavlov (as in Pavlovian conditioning) Pecksniffian – Seth Pecksniff, Dickens' fictional character Pelagian – Pelagius (as in Pelagian heresy)...
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    time when the Montagu scandal would soon be inflaming the pharisees and Pecksniffs. The actor contemplated suicide and faced ruin, only to find that his...
    41 KB (3,989 words) - 13:32, 6 June 2024
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    appearance as Cynic Sal, who "dresse[s] like a coachman of the period of Pecksniff"—a reference to the style of dress seen in her 1923 self-portrait. From...
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    Reefton groups. The Greenland Group has been metamorphosed to form the Pecksniff Metasedimentary Gneiss. The common name for these is the 'Charleston Gneiss'...
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    mountains at the southern end of the valley, made of early Paleozoic Pecksniff Metasedimentary Gneiss, have been carved by glaciation to form cirques...
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  • star Σ 362). Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician – Peano axioms. Mr. Pecksniff, British literary character – Pecksniffian Pelagius, British theologian...
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