Samuel Pickwick was the protagonist of Dickens' first novel, "The Pickwick Papers," and became beloved to readers for his somewhat ridiculous adventures as he travels England by coach and then reports back what he sees to fellow members of his Pickwick Club. Pickwick – who is generally envisioned as a chubby, balding man with glasses – is a rather idealistic and naive creature, who blunders unwittingly into woes such as a lawsuit brought against him by his landlady who mistakenly imagines that he has proposed to her.
