![]() Often, serially published novels appeared a few chapters at a time in magazines, but The Pickwick Papers was published (in London) in small booklets that could be purchased for a shilling each. The novel, in common with many novels of the Victorian era, was first published serially-in this case, in monthly parts from April 1836 to November 1837. Phiz Browne, who would work with Dickens for more than two decades. The illustrations for most of the rest of the novel were drawn by H. The novel was originally conceived as commentary for sporting illustrations drawn by the popular caricaturist Robert Seymour, but it quickly took on a life of its own, particularly after Seymour's untimely death. The conceit of the novel, established in the first chapter, is that it is a record of the club's adventures and that its posthumous papers have been edited by the author. Pickwick founds and leads the Pickwick Club and joins a group of the club's members to travel throughout England in search of antiquities and other curiosities. The novel's protagonist is Samuel Pickwick: wealthy, unworldly, unmarried, portly, bespectacled, slightly aging, and benevolent but naive. ![]() ![]() ![]() Popularly referred to as The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens's first novel is actually titled The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. ![]()
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