12 Facts About Miser

Miser is coupled with the banker Jemmy Wood of Gloucester, a more recent miser about whom Dickens later wrote an article in his magazine All The Year Round.

Miser's had carefully picked up every pin that fell in her way, till she nearly filled one hundred pincushions.

Miser lived in 800 CE during the Abbasid Caliphate in Basra, making this the earliest and largest known work on the subject in Arabic literature.

Miser's son invites in his playmates to pick the fruit but asks them not to eat the rotten ones since his father prefers those.

In "Bite Upon the Miser", printed in the late 18th century, a sailor dresses up as the devil and scares the miser and the parson he intended as her husband into allowing the match.

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Much the same situation occurs in "The Politic Lovers or the Windsor Miser Outwitted", where it is a butcher who impersonates the devil and scares the miser into handing over his riches.

Miser is rudely awoken by two rascals mishandling him in an effort to lay their hands on his riches.

Miser had already produced a one-act comedy titled L'avaro in Bologna in 1756.

Meanwhile, William Harrison Ainsworth's period novel The Miser's Daughter was spawning a fresh crop of dramas of that title.

Hieronymus Bosch's panel of Death and the Miser, dating from the 1490s, started a fashion in depicting this subject among Low Countries artists.

Miser is pictured seated at a table eating a meager meal, attended by Death in the guise of an emaciated and naked manservant holding in his right hand a tray with a bone on it and behind him, in his left hand, the dart of death.

Miser is looking down as if examining something and the room behind him is spartanly furnished with just a table and bench, while a broadsheet is tacked to the wall.