Tracy Tupman is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's first novel, The Pickwick Papers. Although fat and middle-aged he considers himself a young lover and has an unfortunate amorous entanglement
Cupid shoots his arrow into the heart of Tracy Tupman - illustration by Thomas Nast (1873)
Mr. Tupman looked round. There was the fat boy - Hablot Knight Browne (1874)
Charles Dickens Project Gutenberg e Text 13103
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club was the first novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published in serial form from March 1836 to November 1837. Because of his success with Sketches
Original cover issued in 1836
Master Humphrey meets Mr Pickwick, from the Master Humphrey's Clock magazine sequel
The Goblin and the Sexton
Discovery of Jingle in the Fleet