Charles Lever
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Charles James Lever was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation.
Lever in 1858
Advertisement for The Novels of Charles Lever in the Feb. 1895 edition of The Bookman (New York City)
Sam Weller (character)
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Sam Weller is a fictional character in The Pickwick Papers, the first novel by Charles Dickens, and the character that made Dickens famous. A humorous Cockney bootblack, Sam Weller first appeared in t
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…at,' and rode haughtily away." And yet these careless sketches contain such haunting creations as Frank Webber, Major Monsoon and Micky Free, "the Sam Weller of Ireland". According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition…
Sam Weller by 'Kyd'
Mr Pickwick encounters Sam Weller - illustration by Hablot Knight Browne for The Pickwick Papers (July 1836)
Sam Weller woos Mary - in a postcard of 1903
Sam Weller and the Fat Boy - Gilbert Scott Wright (1909)