Charles Dickens the house. The success of "Sketches by Boz" led to a proposal from publishers Chapman and Hall for Dickens to supply text to match Robert Seymour's engraved illustrations in a monthly letterpress. Seymour committed suicide after the second instalment, and Dickens, who wanted to write a connected series of sketches, hired "Phiz" to provide the engravings (which were reduced from four to two per instalment) for the story. The resulting story became "The Pickwick Papers", and though the first few episodes were not successful, the introduction of the Cockney character Sam Weller in the fourth episode (the first to be
Sam Weller (cricketer) Sam Weller (cricketer) Sam David Weller (born 21 November 1994) is an English cricketer who plays first-class cricket for Oxford MCC University. Weller captained the Oxford MCCU side in 2015 and 2016. He is primarily a right-arm fast bowler who also bats right-handed. He has played for Kent County Cricket Club Second XI and was awarded a professional contract with the County in 2014 although he did not make a senior appearance for the First XI. Weller was born in Chislehurst, Kent and he lived in Singapore for three years between the ages of 10 and 13, where he attended