Biography charles dickens london map
Biography of charles dickens
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Left: Map London in 1818. Middle: Map London in 1850. Right: Map Central London in 1850.
Biography charles dickens london map
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In 1929 when the Dickensian ran these maps to demonstrate the changes wrought by a century of population growth, urban sprawl, and technological expansion, the lineaments of Dickens's London were still discernible — just six decades having passed since his death.
Even his former residence on Doughty Street looked much the same in 1929 as it had when Dickens wrote The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Nicholas Nickleby there from 1837 through 1839. Walter Dexter associates the London of the Regency with A Christmas Carol, for the novella recalls the days when the Dickenses lived at 18 Bayham Street in Camden Town, before the Great West Railway sliced through Wellington House Academy, Dickens's old school, at the corner of Grandby Street.
The association of the London of 1850 with David Copperfield is perhaps more obvious, for that was when the novel was ap