List of Dickensian Characters - F

F

• Fagin is the leader of a group of pickpockets in Oliver Twist
• Fan Scrooge's sister in A Christmas Carol, mother of his nephew Fred. She has died before the story begins but lives again in the 'shadows' shown to Scrooge by the Ghost of Christmas Past. She is based on Dickens' own sister Fanny who died of consumption at age 38.
• Feeder, Mr The assistant to Dr Blimber in Dombey and Son, at the school in Brighton which the younger Paul Dombey attends. Later marries Blimber's daughter Cornelia and takes over the management of the school.
• Fezziwig, Mr hosts a Christmas party that Scrooge visits with the Ghost of Christmas past in A Christmas Carol. Scrooge is reminded of what a kind, generous man 'Old Fezziwig' was. Fezziwig was a very happy man with three daughters. Fezziwig wore a powdered wig and a waistcoat.
• Finching, Flora was the love of Arthur Clennam's youth in Little Dorrit. In middle age she has become pathologically eccentric, continually throwing her apron over her head and saying she is 'a poor lorn creatur'.
• Fizkin, Horatio the 'Buff' candidate in the Eatanswill by-election, in The Pickwick Papers.
• Flintwinch, Affery servant in the Clennam household and wife of Jeremiah Flintwinch in Little Dorrit
• Flintwinch, Jeremiah servant in the Clennam household and husband of Affery Flintwinch in Little Dorrit
• Flite, Miss is the female tenant of Krook's Bottle Shop in Bleak House, obsessive about her case in Chancery, the length and complexity of which has unhinged her.
• Fred the good-hearted nephew of Ebenezer Scrooge, son of his sister Fan in A Christmas Carol.