Master Humphrey

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 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.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "article name needed". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.

Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop
Characters
  • Sampson Brass
  • Master Humphrey
Films
  • The Old Curiosity Shop (1921)
  • The Old Curiosity Shop (1934)
  • The Old Curiosity Shop (1975)
Television
  • The Old Curiosity Shop (1979)
  • The Old Curiosity Shop (2007)
Related
  • Dickens and Little Nell


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    “If the master is easy, the servant will be slack.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Each child is an adventure into a better life—an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.”
    —Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)