What was the Pickwick Club?

Baloo55th

See 'Pickwick Papers' by Charles Dickens. It was a group of people centred on Mr. Pickwick in that novel. Apr 27 03, 8:53 PM

Tabby Tom

The Pickwick Club appears in Chapter 1 of Charles Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers', which consists largely of the minutes of one of its meetings. At this meeting, the Club set up a Corresponding Society of four members (Samuel Pickwick, Tracy Tupman, Nathaniel Winkle and Augustus Snodgrass), whose terms of reference were to travel and to 'forward, from time to time, authenticated accounts of their journeys and investigations, of their observations of character and manners, and of the whole of their adventures, to which local scenery and associations may give rise.' The rest of the novel consists of the quartet's adventures, which we must presume were communicated to the Club, though I don't think we hear any more of the Club itself. The Club was probably originally conceived by Dickens as a satire on the learned and quasi-learned societies which were springing up like mushrooms in the pre-Victorian era when 'Pickwick Papers' was written. Apr 27 03, 8:58 PM