Master Humphrey is the narrator and main character in

Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian er ...

's serial, ''

Master Humphrey's Clock ''Master Humphrey's Clock'' was a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens and published from 4 April 1840 to 4 December 1841. It began with a frame story in which Master Humphrey tells about himself and his small circle o ...

''. He is also the unnamed narrator of the first three chapters of Dickens's 1841 novel ''

The Old Curiosity Shop ''The Old Curiosity Shop'' is one of two novels (the other being ''Barnaby Rudge'') which Charles Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial ''Master Humphrey's Clock'', from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York r ...

'', 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.

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Humphrey, Master The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens characters Male characters in literature {{novel-char-stub