“Wackford Squeers.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections.Favorite Mr Squeers from Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens (gravure)ħ184907 Mr Squeers from Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens (gravure) by Lewin, Frederick George (1861-1933) Private Collection (add.info.: Mr Squeers from Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens. George Arents Collection, The New York Public Library. Allingham from The John Players cigarette card. “Squeers.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. Allingham from The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1861-71). What do you think of him?” Scanned by Philip V. Squeers, Nicholas Nickleby.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. Allingham from Character Sketches from Dickens, p. Allingham from The Dickens Picture-Book, p. The Yorkshire Schoolmaster at The Saracen’s Head. Wackford Squeers, schoolmaster at Dotheboys “Hall”: Browne, Halbot K. Looking for more to read on Nickleby? The Dickens Project, headquartered at the University of California at Santa Cruz, provides recommended bibliographies for each of Dickens’s novels, including Nicholas Nickleby on the Project’s website.įinally, enjoy various renderings of the notorious Mr. Interested in thinking about how Ralph Nickleby made his fortune? Dano Cammarota shared an interesting blog post entitled “Opium, Muffins, and Tea: The Setting of Nicholas Nickleby,” on the Dickens Society blog that considers this topic. Learn more about Nickleby illustrator Habolt Knight Browne (Phiz), including biographical materials, images of artwork for Dickens, Charles Lever, Harrison Ainsworth, and others on The Victorian Web. Included are images of part of the manuscript for the novel, a letter Dickens wrote to his wife about the schools, and an advertisement from The Times that is thought to have inspired Dickens when creating the novel. John Sutherland provides a useful overview of the novel and its condemnation of the Yorkshire schools in “ Nicholas Nickleby and the Yorkshire schools” on the British Library site. We’ve scheduled nearly a month to read it, but start soon – it’s another long one! Initially serialized from March 1838 to October 1839 (overlapping with the serial release of Oliver Twist), it was first published in a single volume in 1839. New week? New book! We officially start Dickens’s Nicholas Nickleby on February 15.

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