MICAWBER DAY 2024
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January 18, 2024
Introduced to the world in 1850 via Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, the character Wilkins Micawber is known for his oft-repeated credo, “Something will turn up.” Since then, the adjective “Micawberish” has come to mean living in optimistic expectation of better fortune, without lifting a finger to make it come any sooner.
On Micawber Day, a holiday that we initiated over a decade ago — because George Cukor’s film adaptation of David Copperfield, in which W.C. Fields brilliantly portrays Micawber, was released on January 18th, 1935 — we urge HILOBROW readers to keep telling themselves that…
SOMETHING WILL TURN UP!