Dickens' London

Charles Dickens' works are especially associated with London^[1] which is the setting for many of his novels.^[2] These works do not just use London as a backdrop but are about the city and its character.^[3]

Charles Dickens' father was incarcerated in the debtors' prison of Marshalsea in Southwark.^[4] This was then the setting for much of his novel Little Dorrit.

Charles Dickens' first son, also called Charles Dickens, wrote a popular guidebook to London called Dickens's Dictionary of London in 1879.^[5]

References

1. ^ Thomas Edgar Pemberton (1876), Dickens's London; Or, London in the Works of Charles Dickens, p. 4, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_zACAAAAQAAJ 
2. ^ Edwin Beresford Chancellor (1924), The London of Charles Dickens: being an account of the haunts of his characters and the topographical setting of his novels, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=b3AfAAAAIAAJ 
3. ^ Jeremy Tambling (2009), Going astray: Dickens and London, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0nUqAQAAIAAJ 
4. ^ Francis Miltown (1903), Dickens' London, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=a_Z6T_FozDQC&PG=110 
5. ^ Lee Jackson (2006), A dictionary of Victorian London: an A-Z of the great metropolis, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GEswrOisKB0C&pg=PR12 

External links

• Charles Dickens Museum in London
• David Perdue on Dickens' London
• Map of Dickens' London
• Walks through Dickens' London