Martin Chuzzlewit · Character
Colonel Diver
An American newspaper editor.
minor
Also known as Colonel
First appearance: xxxi
Colonel Diver shows up with force in Chapter XVI. The page is where that presence becomes real.
A bombastic editor of the Rowdy Journal who defends the paper's personal attacks and forged letters as 'smartness'.
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- Central Chuzzlewit Circle
- Minor London Figures
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