The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick
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A lawyer's reading of Dickens gives Frank Lockwood the subject for this short lecture, delivered at Morley Hall, Hackney, in 1893. He turns to the legal world of Pickwick, finding material in its clerks, solicitors, barristers and judge. The opening connects Dickens's close observation with his childhood visits to the Marshalsea and his later work in an attorney's office, showing how lived experience supplied details for fiction.
Lockwood mixes commentary with passages from the novel, including the dealings of Dodson and Fogg and the claim brought by Mrs. Bardell against Mr. Pickwick. Their attention to fees and their calculated handling of his anger give the lecture its comic edge.
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- Author
- Frank Lockwood
- Reading time
- About 1 hour
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Literature
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