The Pickwick Papers · Character
Emily Wardle
Mr. Wardle's gentle, pretty daughter, whose quiet romantic gravity draws the poetic Snodgrass and briefly the predatory attention of Jingle.
supporting
Also known as Emily, Miss Wardle, Miss Emily Wardle, Emily Wardle
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One of the young ladies in the barouche with scarfs and feathers.
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Emily Wardle belongs to the bright, bustling world of Dingley Dell, where she and her sister Isabella are the emotional prizes around whom the men orbit. Her mildness contrasts with her father's bluster and with the…
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Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Jingle and romantic interests
- Pickwickians and associates
- Ipswich and Bath characters
- Dodson and Fogg clerks
- Minor characters and witnesses
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- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- A Field Day and Bivouac—More New Friends—An Invitation to the Country
- An Old-Fashioned Card-Party—The Clergyman's Verses—The Story of the Convict's Return
- Chapter VIII: Strongly illustrative of the position, that the course of true love is not a railway
- Involving another journey, and an antiquarian discovery; recording Mr. Pickwick's determination to be present at an election; and containing a manuscript of the old clergyman's.
- Chapter XXVIII
- LVI
- LVII
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