Master Humphrey

Fictional character in novels by Charles Dickens

Master Humphrey is the narrator and main character in Dickens's serial, Master Humphrey's Clock. He is also the unnamed narrator of the first three chapters of Dickens's 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop, which was originally published in that serial. It is revealed in the portion of Master Humphrey's Clock which follows The Old Curiosity Shop that he is also in fact the unnamed 'single gentleman' who appears in the second half of that novel.

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop
Characters
  • Nell Trent
  • Sampson Brass
  • Master Humphrey
  • Quilp
  • Dick Swiveller
Films
  • 1911
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  • 1921
  • 1934
  • Mister Quilp (1975)
  • 1984
Television
  • 1979–80
  • 2007
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  • Dickens and Little Nell statue


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