# Dodson and Fogg — The Pickwick Papers character guide

> Dodson and Fogg in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Messrs. Dodson, Fogg, Dodson, Messrs. Dodson & Fogg, Dodson & Fogg, Mr. Dodson, Mr. Fogg

**First appearance:** 0004-iii

## Snapshot

The two attorneys who prosecute Mrs. Bardell's breach-of-promise case, conducting business with cold efficiency and cheerful indifference to justice.

## Who they are

Dodson and Fogg operate from a dim office where clients are commodities and truth is a negotiable inconvenience. They take up Mrs. Bardell's cause not from conviction but from the certainty of costs, and their relentless legal machinery threatens to ruin Pickwick. As the embodiment of the profession's predatory side, they give the novel's middle chapters their sharpest edge of anxiety beneath the comedy.

## Relationships

### [Samuel Pickwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/characters/samuel_pickwick)

_rivalry_

Dodson and Fogg are unscrupulous lawyers who represent Mrs. Bardell in her lawsuit against Pickwick.

### [Samuel Pickwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/characters/samuel_pickwick)

_rivalry_

Dodson and Fogg are unscrupulous lawyers who represent Mrs. Bardell in her lawsuit against Pickwick.

### [Samuel Pickwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/characters/samuel_pickwick)

_rivalry_

Dodson and Fogg are unscrupulous lawyers who represent Mrs. Bardell in her lawsuit against Pickwick.

## In the story

### [Chapter XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xx)

Serve Mr. Pickwick with a writ for breach of promise, demanding £1,500 in damages, and provoke him into calling them swindlers.

### [XLVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xlvi)

Responsible for having Mrs. Bardell taken into custody for costs.

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