# Emily Wardle — The Pickwick Papers character guide

> Emily Wardle in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Emily, Miss Wardle, Miss Emily Wardle, Emily Wardle

**First appearance:** 0002-i

## Snapshot

Mr. Wardle's gentle, pretty daughter, whose quiet romantic gravity draws the poetic Snodgrass and briefly the predatory attention of Jingle.

## Who they are

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.

## In the story

### [A Field Day and Bivouac—More New Friends—An Invitation to the Country](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/iv)

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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/vi)

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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/viii)

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.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xi)

Emerges from a dark passage with Snodgrass, her eyes unusually dim, hinting at a romantic attachment.

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

Acts as a bridesmaid, her signature nearly illegible on the register.

### [LVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/lvi)

Emily Wardle sends a note via the fat boy, mentioned as part of the chapter's events.

### [LVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/lvii)

Marries Augustus Snodgrass at Mr. Pickwick's new house; sobs audibly during Mr. Pickwick's speech.

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