# Slurk — The Pickwick Papers character guide

> Slurk in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Slurk, Mr. Slurk

**First appearance:** 0028-xxvii

## Who they are

Editor of the rival Eatanswill newspaper, the Gazette.

## In the story

### [In which Mr. Pickwick encounters an old acquaintance—to which fortunate circumstance the reader is mainly indebted for matter of thrilling interest herein set down, concerning two great public men of might and power.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/li)

Slurk, editor of the Independent, trades insults with Pott and initiates the fight by striking Pott with a carpetbag.

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