Charles ( left ) and Lupin Pooter at Broadstairs, from Chapter VI of Diary of a Nobody

The book is a sharp analysis of social insecurity, and Charles Pooter of The Laurels, Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, was immediately recognized as one of the great comic characters of English literature.

Grossmith's illustration of Charles ( left ) and Lupin Pooter ( Chap.

The book is a sharp analysis of social insecurity, and Charles Pooter of The Laurels, Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, was immediately recognized as one of the great English comic characters.

Charles ( left ) and Lupin Pooter at Broadstairs, from Chapter VI of The Diary of a Nobody.

The diary is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Mr. Charles Pooter, a middle-aged city clerk of lower middle-class status but significant social aspirations, living in the fictional " Brickfield Terrace " in Upper Holloway, which was then a typical suburb of the impecuniously respectable kind.

Davis then rewrote the blog as an auto RSS generator in April 2007 and as a Twitter feed in 2011 at Charles Pooter, @ pooter_2011.

* Another TV version appeared on BBC Four in 2007, starring Hugh Bonneville as Charles Pooter.

* Diary of a Nobody ( 2012 ) ... Mr. Charles Pooter

He also had a starring role as Charles Pooter in the 1979 television adaptation of George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody, a role which shows his versatility more than the succession of officers he usually portrays.

The Dodo is a fictional character appearing in Chapters 2 and 3 of the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ( Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ).

The " Wilburys " joke was extended further, with the band members credited under various pseudonyms and pretending to be half-brothers – sons of a fictional Charles Truscott Wilbury, Sr.

* probable – Charles de Batz-Castelmore d ' Artagnan, French count and musketeer, on which the fictional D ' Artagnan from the novel The Three Musketeers is based ( d. 1673 )

* Jarvis Lorry, a fictional character in the Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities

Uriah Heep is a fictional character created by Charles Dickens in his novel David Copperfield.

The Addams Family is a group of fictional characters created by American cartoonist Charles Addams.

* Mr. Burns, full name Charles Montgomery Burns, fictional character from the American animated sitcom The Simpsons

The story, though fictional, is loosely based on the real-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, in 1958, though such a basis was not acknowledged when the film was released.

Charles Budderick Cole, popularly known as Buddy Cole, is a fictional character created and portrayed by actor-comedian Scott Thompson.

There is a wide variety of secondary sources of information, but they must be treated with caution: the popular, romanticised view of Hereward often has little basis in the medieval sources, owing more to the fictional depiction by Charles Kingsley and later authors.

* Nazgûl, the nickname of a fictional American occult intelligence agency in Charles Stross's Laundry novels

Charles is also a major character in Margaret Frazer's The Maiden's Tale, a historical mystery which gives a very sympathetic fictional account of a few weeks of his life in England in the autumn of 1439, shortly before his release in 1440.

* Jonesboro is the place of death of the fictional character Rooster Cogburn in the 2010 film adaptation of Charles Portis ' novel True Grit.

Wilkins Micawber is a fictional character from Charles Dickens's 1850 novel, David Copperfield.

* A fictional city in ALPH, a science fiction novel by Charles Eric Maine

Nick and Nora Charles are fictional characters created by Dashiell Hammett in his novel The Thin Man.

* In " Ray ," the motion picture biopic about the life of musician Ray Charles, a fictional character named Oberon is featured as a dwarf that is the M. C.

Among the burnt books are " On the Origin of Species " by Charles Darwin, " A Brief History of Time ", by Stephen Hawking, and a fictional book entitled " Logic for First Graders ".

The film opens with Buddy Holly's beginnings as a teenager in Lubbock, Texas and his emergence into the world of rock and roll with his fictional good friends and bandmates, drummer Jesse Charles ( Don Stroud ) and bass player Ray Bob Simmons ( Charles Martin Smith ), soon to be known as The Crickets.

Citizen Kane includes a fictional newsreel " News on the March " that summarizes the life of title character Charles Foster Kane while parodying The March of Time.

There are 40 letters in all, mainly to people in Italian history and fiction, but also to internationally well known fictional and historical characters such as Pinocchio, Charles Dickens, Hippocrates, and Jesus.

The narrator in Burr is the fictional Charles (" Charlie ") Schuyler, a young man of Dutch descent working as an apprentice in Burr's New York law office some 30 years after the treason trial.

In 1849 the diarist Charles Greville described their life at Balmoral as like that of gentry rather than royalty.

The contemporary diarist Charles Greville wrote of Gladstone's speech:

* Charles Greville ( 1794 – 1865 ), diarist and cricketer

Evelyn's diaries or Memoirs are largely contemporaneous with those of the other noted diarist of the time, Samuel Pepys, and cast considerable light on the art, culture and politics of the time ( he witnessed the deaths of Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, the last Great Plague of London, and the Great Fire of London in 1666 ).

He was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and it is sometimes thought that his father may have been the Englishman Samuel Gibbons, who worked under Inigo Jones, but even two of his closest acquaintances, the portrait painter Thomas Murray and the diarist John Evelyn, cannot agree on how he came to be introduced to King Charles II.

Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville ( 2 April 1794 – 17 January 1865 ) was an English diarist and an amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1819 to 1827.

His eldest daughter Charlotte Williams-Wynn was a well-known diarist ; his son, also named Charles, followed him into Parliament.

Ritchie was a scion of prominent families — the Almons, Ritchies, and Stewarts were all major families in Nova Scotia — and his brother, Charles Ritchie was an important Canadian diplomat and diarist.

Reports of the reasons behind Lehzen's departure varied ; court diarist Charles Greville noted she was leaving " for her health ( as she says ), to stay five or six months, but it is supposed never to return.

Charles Stewart Almon Ritchie, ( September 23, 1906 – June 7, 1995 ) was a Canadian diplomat and diarist.

Charles II sponsored the Royal Society, which courtiers were eager to join ( for example, the noted diarist Samuel Pepys was a member ), just as Royal Society members moved in court.