Pecksniff

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Born in Doncaster, Emma worked in theatre for 10 years before her TV break as Charity Pecksniff in a TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit.

Emma was the most loyal & loving friend; Dawn French's tribute to Dibley co-star who died at 53

The question is: can Moll Pecksniff with wildcat Gryff and friends Siddy and Domino find the last Amulet of Truth and release the world from the dark magic of the Shadowmasks for ever and return their lost companion, Alfie, to the world of the living?

Elphinstone, Abi: The Night Spinner (Dreamsnatcher)

Similarly, in Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44) the card tricks performed by Jonas become a metaphor for his double dealing with Charity and Mercy Pecksniff (242).

The travelling Doll Wonder: Dickens, secular magic, and Bleak House

Which of Charles Dickens's novels features the Pecksniff family?

QUIZ OF THE DAY

The Pecksniff from one West Wing of his pupil's designs for an orphanage.

Waugh 25th Anniversary Quiz (1952)

One Protestant Pecksniff was the Civil War-era Puritan vicar of Kibworth John Yaxley, described as "a great disturber of the peace, by day and night, searching for cavaliers and making great havoc and spoil of people's goods.

Homing in on England

And what Briers' Martin Bryce - a fastidious, cricket jumper-wearing, curtain-twitching pecksniff - would have made of that addition to the regulars at his idyllic thatched village pub the Lord alone only knows.

TV TIMES PAST

7 Tom Wilkinson played Mr Pecksniff in a dramatisation of which Dickens novel?

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Hardly the behaviour that you would expect from a chorister at St Philemon's church, Toxteth, near John Scott Martin's home, in Pecksniff Street.

John Scott Martin; OBITUARY

Every humbug seemed a Pecksniff, every nurse a Gamp, every jovial improvident a Micawber, every stinted serving-wench a Marchioness.

The paradox of fiction and the ethics of empathy: reconceiving Dickens's realism

They make excellent use of particular cases, Pecksniff from Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit and Dimmesdale from Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter respectively.

C. A. J. Coady, ed.: What's Wrong with Moralism?

Merely seeing someone who exhibits the traits of a 'Pantagathos' (like Mr Pecksniff in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit) is sufficient to raise his ire.

Epigrammatic psogos: censure in the epigrams of Palladas of Alexandria

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