Martin Chuzzlewit sweet and good, like her brother. At first she works as a governess to a wealthy family with several nasty brats. Later in the novel she and Tom set up housekeeping together. She falls in love with, and marries, Tom's friend John Westlock. Mark Tapley, the good-humoured employee of the Blue Dragon Inn and suitor of Mrs Lupin (the Dragon's owner), leaves that establishment to find work that's more of a credit to his character: that is, work sufficiently miserable that his cheerfulness will be more of a credit to him. He eventually joins Young Martin Chuzzlewit on his trip
Tom Cribb MacDonald Fraser’s novel "Black Ajax", a fictionalised account of Tom Molineaux's life. In Charles Dickens' comic novel "Martin Chuzzlewit" (ch.9), Cribb is humorously cited as the inventor of a defensive stance used by the boy Bailey, as the landlady Mrs Todgers aims a smack at his head. He is mentioned in one episode of the Victorian crime drama "Cribb", in which one of Cribb's men speculates whether he is descended from the famous boxer. The episode is largely centred on prize-fighting. Cribb's fights with Molineaux, was turned into a 2014 play by Ed Viney called "Prize Fighters". Cribb is also