The Pickwick Club's elegant 19th-century clubrooms were adorned for the holiday season: Christmas trees, garlands, wreaths, and poinsettias -- even the classical statues were topped with Santa Claus ...

There was much joyful Christmas spirit, positively Pickwickian, one could say, when on Dec. 18, Mr. Pickwick presented 24 young ladies at the Pickwick Club's 63rd annual Debutante Presentation. In its ...

When the Jimmy Maxwell Orchestra struck up “Thank Heaven for Little Girls,” a coterie flocked to the dance floor to take a turn with their fathers. Many of the young ladies were holding their bouquets ...

A favorite Dickensian character, Mr. Pickwick, welcomed a debutante set to the stunning rooms in the downtown club that bears his name. “Mr. Pickwick requests the pleasure of your company in his club ...

Today’s Christmas lunch started with the singing of The Boys of the Old Brigade and ended with a wine-fuelled and therefore boisterous rendition of Auld Lang Syne. The event has been starting and ...

ONE hundred years ago, March 1836, a thin green paper-covered pamphlet called No. 1 of the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club was offered to a quite indifferent London reading public. Humble and ...