Word: pickwick
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...oldest bicycle club is the Pickwick of London; to this club belongs the credit of forming the Bicycle Union in England, now called the National 'Cyclists Union, since the tricycle has come into vogue...
...Jones' programme was made up of the description of Little Emily's first meeting with Steerforth, the story of her flight with him, the description of the wreck, and, lastly, the trial scene in Bardell vs. Pickwick. Curiously enough, Mr. Jones did some of his most effective work, and that which was least effective in the humorous portions of his selections. His rendering of the trial scene in Pickwick was capital; while the delineation of the humorous side of Peggotty's character was much less satisfactory. In the serious and emotional parts Mr. Jones was uniformly excellent. The stirring description...
Dickens made quite as much money by his readings as by his novels. Many of his early bargains with publishers were deplorable, considering that his popularity was at a high flow from the appearance of the first number of "Pickwick." After a careful investigation of accounts, Talfourd made an elaborate calculation during the publication of "Nicholas Nickleby" by which it appeared that for three years previously Dickens ought to have been making L10,000 a year out of his writings. The circulation of the monthly parts of "Martin Chuzzlewit" fell to 25,000 a month from a circulation...