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.

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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 scheming of suitors like Jingle, who sees her as a fortune to be abducted rather than a person to be loved. Her presence gives the Pickwickians' country episodes their tenderness and stakes, and quietly sets Snodgrass's sentimental heart in motion.

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Jingle and romantic interests
Pickwickians and associates
Ipswich and Bath characters
Dodson and Fogg clerks
Minor characters and witnesses

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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

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Escalation
Breaking point
Aftermath
Closing

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A Field Day and Bivouac—More New Friends—An Invitation to the Country
One of the young ladies in the barouche with scarfs and feathers.
An Old-Fashioned Card-Party—The Clergyman's Verses—The Story of the Convict's Return
One of the young ladies attending to the old lady and participating in the evening's merriment.
Chapter VIII: Strongly illustrative of the position, that the course of true love is not a railway
The niece whom Jingle falsely claims Tupman loves, used as a pawn in Jingle's scheme.
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.
Emerges from a dark passage with Snodgrass, her eyes unusually dim, hinting at a romantic attachment.
Chapter XXVIII
Acts as a bridesmaid, her signature nearly illegible on the register.
LVI
Emily Wardle sends a note via the fat boy, mentioned as part of the chapter's events.
LVII
Marries Augustus Snodgrass at Mr. Pickwick's new house; sobs audibly during Mr. Pickwick's speech.

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