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  2. Wilkins Micawber - Wikipedia

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    Wilkins Micawber is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's 1850 novel David Copperfield. He is traditionally identified with the optimistic belief that "something will turn up." He is traditionally identified with the optimistic belief that "something will turn up."

  3. List of Dickensian characters - Wikipedia

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    Micawber, Wilkins exposes the deeds of Uriah Heep in David Copperfield. Molly is Mr Jaggers' mysterious housekeeper. "She was a woman of about forty, I supposed, but I may have thought her younger than she was. Rather tall, of a lithe nimble figure, extremely pale, with large faded eyes, and a quantity of streaming hair.

  4. Micawber (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Micawber is a 2001 ITV comedy drama series starring David Jason. It was written by John Sullivan , based upon the character of Wilkins Micawber from Charles Dickens ' 1850 novel David Copperfield , although the storylines were original.

  5. David Copperfield - Wikipedia

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    Micawber emigrates to Australia, where he enjoys a successful career as a sheep farmer and becomes a magistrate. He is based on Dickens's father, John Dickens, who faced similar financial problems when Dickens was a child, but never emigrated. [4] Emma Micawber – Wilkins Micawber's wife and the mother of their five children. She comes from a ...

  6. Micawber (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Wilkins Micawber is a character in the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield, who is noted for his poverty, effusive speech, and eternal optimism ("something will turn up"). Micawber may also refer to: Micawber, a 2001 ITV drama by John Sullivan starring David Jason, based on the Dickens character

  7. Joseph Clayton Clark - Wikipedia

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    Wilkins Micawber from David Copperfield. Clark had many occupations during his lifetime, including designer of cigarette cards and postcards, and as a fore-edge painter principally specializing in characters from the works of Charles Dickens. He worked for Punch for only one day and then as a freelance artist until 1900.

  8. Edward Murdstone - Wikipedia

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    Murdstone also arranges for David to live with a friend called Wilkins Micawber, who takes good care of David. After being released from a debtors' prison, Mr Micawber is forced to move to Plymouth and David flees the factory to find his aunt Betsey Trotwood at Dover .

  9. John Dickens - Wikipedia

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    John Dickens (21 August 1785 – 31 March 1851) was the father of the famous English novelist Charles Dickens and was the model for Mr Micawber in his son's semi-autobiographical novel David Copperfield.