This document origianlly was an appendix to the author's "The Names of Dickens's American Originals in Martin Chuzzlewit," which first appeared in The Dickens Quarterly 7, 3 (September 1990): 329-37. It has been re-publioshed in The Victorian Web by permission of The Dickens Society, which holds the copyright.
Martin encounters thirty-odd characters who between them have twenty-five names, since included in the number are married couples such as the Pawkinses and Bricks and a family of six (the Norrises). On board the "Esau Slodge" Martin may only hear of and not actually meet Chiggle; similarly, he receives a letter from but never actually meets Putnam Smif. A thirty-third character is the eponym for the riverboat.
Chapter 16 (No. 7; July 1843)
Colonel Diver
Jefferson Brick and the literary Mrs. Brick
Major Pawkins and Mrs. Pawkins
Professor Mullit or 'Suturb' (Brutus Reversed)
Mr. Bevan (seen also in Ch. 17, 21, 34)
Chapter 17
Cicero, a Negro slave
Mr. Norris and his family: Mrs. Norris, Junior, two daughters, and grandmother
General Fladdock
Chapter 21 (No. 9; September 1843)
La Fayette Kettle
General Cyrus Choke, United States Militia
Watertoast Association of United Sympathisers &
Gazette
Eden Land Corporation
Zephaniah Scadder
Chapter 22
Putnam Smif (introduced by letter only)
Captain Kedgick (also in Ch. 34)
Mrs. Hominy (also in Ch. 34)
Chapter 23
New Thermopylae
Chapter 33
Hannibal Chollop, an aristocrat of Nature [336/337]
Chapter 34
The Honourable Elijah Pogram, Congressman
Chiggle, his "soul-subduing" sculptor
"six gentlemen boarders and a very shrill boy": Dr. Ginery Dunkle of Troy; the unremarkable Mr. Jodd. Mr. Izzard, and Oscar Buffum; Julius Washington Merryweather Bib; Colonel Groper; Professor Piper
Miss Toppit
Miss Codger,
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