Mrs Conceited American literary lady Martin is forced to accompany on the first leg of the trip to Eden in Martin Chuzzlewit. Honeythunder, Luke Loud, overbearing philanthropist and guardian of Neville and Helena Landless in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Hortense Lady Dedlock's French maid in Bleak House. She is dismissed in favour of Rosa and aids lawyer Tulkinghorn in discovering Lady Dedlock's secret. When Tulkinghorn spurns her, she murders him. Hortense is based on Mrs Manning, a murderer whose execution Dickens witnessed in 1849. Hubble, Mr and Mrs are friends of the Gargerys in Great Expectations. Mr Hubble is the village wheelwright. "I remember Mrs Hubble as a little curly sharp-edged person in sky-blue, who held a conveniently juvenile position, because she had married Mr Hubble--I don't know at what remote period--when she was much younger than he. I remember Mr Hubble as a tough, high-shouldered stooping old man, of a sawdusty fragrance, with his legs extraordinarily wide apart; so that in my short days I always saw some miles of open country between them when I met him coming up the lane." Hugh The hostler at the Maypole Inn. Joins the rioters in London and is later hanged. Revealed to be the son of Sir John Chester in Barnaby Rudge Humphrey, Master The narrator in Master Humphrey's Clock and at the start of The Old Curiosity Shop Hunter, Leo, Mr and Mrs Mrs Hunter organised a fancy-dress garden party for literary people in The Pickwick Papers. She graced the assembled company with a reading of her own poem, The Expiring Frog. Mr Hunter is a docile character, wholly under his wife's influence. Hutley, Jem alias "Dismal Jemmy", is a friend of Alfred Jingle in The Pickwick Papers. He is a shabbily dressed man who makes depressing observations, and then tells the Pickwickians The Stroller's Tale, a story of a man dying in great poverty. J Jaggers, Mr is the secretive lawyer who mediates between Pip and his mysterious benefactor in Great Expectations. He is responsible for Abel Magwitch's wife Molly's acquittal of murder charges and oversees the placement of their daughter Estella in Satis House under Miss Havisham's care, unbeknownst to Abel. "He was a burly man of an exceedingly dark complexion, with an exceedingly large head and a correspondingly large hand...He was prematurely bald at the top of his head, and had bushy black eyebrows that wouldn't