Which eponymous Dickens character has a pet raven named Grip?
John Wilson Bengough News" (1869–83) lasted much longer. Bengough was to found the first major humour magazine in English Canada. A raven character in the Charles Dickens novel "Barnaby Rudge" inspired the name of the magazine "Grip". Its pages carried political and social commentary along with satirical cartoons, and its debut issue of 24 May 1873 declared: ""Grip" will be entirely independent and impartial, always, and on all subjects." Bengough set the editorial policy and was the lead cartoonist. "Grip"s initial financing came from Toronto publisher Andrew Scott Irving. Later in the year Bengough set up an office on 2 Toronto Street and
Dickens in America Miriam comments on how Dickens had to have a rectal fistula operated on without anesthetics. In the Rare Book Department of the Philadelphia Free Library, librarian William Lang shows Miriam Dickens’s pet raven, Grip, stuffed and mounted, and a small gravestone that memorialized Dick, the best of birds, that was once at Gad’s Hill. The Rare Book Department has a huge collection of Dickensiana. Miriam attends a meeting of the Philadelphia Pickwick Club, a dining and drinking men’s society and is inducted in as the only woman member. She receives a pipe and a tie and entertains the men with