general knowledge

[paulineann]

profession of charles dickens character the dowager lady snuphanuph

[Mikeyd2]

Don't know what her profession was , but she was BIG in Bath apparently......

After the Earl�s death, Lady Belmore moved to Bath in 1805 and lived at 17 Royal Crescent for thirty years until her death on 13 December at the age of eighty-six. For a long time she presided over balls held in the Assembly Rooms; and it was here that Dickens must have encountered her, probably in 1835. He completed Pickwick Papers shortly afterwards, and immortalised the dowager countess as Lady Snuphanuph in the chapters of the novel that deal with Mr Pickwick's experiences in Bath. (Chapter 35)