Mrs Bumble
Mrs Bumble believes she deserves a better position in life and she鈥檚 not going to let her lazy, lacking in ambition husband get in the way.
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About Caroline Quentin
Caroline is best known for her role as Dorothy in hit 大象传媒 comedy , for which she won the 1995 Best Comedy Actress Award at the Comedy Awards. She was nominated for two further awards in consecutive years.
She has also starred multiple other series including , Blue Murder and Life Begins, a performance for which she won the 2004 British Comedy Actress Award.
Caroline recently finished filming an episode of Doc Martin in which viewers will see her reunited with former Men Behaving Badly co-star Martin Clunes.
Charles Dickens's Mr & Mrs Bumble
Dickens’s Mrs Bumble is a less developed comic figure that in Dickensian. Though in Oliver Twist Mr Bumble often gets the best lines, Mrs Bumble has her day in the series.
Here Charles Dickens treats us to the beginning of Mr Bumble’s courtship of widow Mrs Corney, (Mrs Bumble to be):
"'Oh, come in with you!' said Mrs. Corney, sharply. 'Some of the old women dying, I suppose. They always die when I'm at meals. Don't stand there, letting the cold air in, don't. What's amiss now, eh?'
'Nothing, ma'am, nothing,' replied a man's voice.
'Dear me!' exclaimed the matron, in a much sweeter tone, 'is that Mr. Bumble?’"
Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Chapter 23.
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