Dickens immersed himself in the city of London, walking the streets and neighborhoods for hours on end, absorbing the city’s life and atmosphere for his novels.  Visit  Dickens’ world with books, and a video visit to one of his homes in London,  now the Dickens’ Museum. 

Victorian London street life in historic photographs   is a classic document of social realism containing  photographs by famed Victorian photographer John Thomson, accompanied by individual essays — by Thomson himself or social activist Adolphe Smith — that offer sharply drawn vignettes of lower-class laborers, dustmen, street musicians, shoe blacks, and other street people.  

Walking Dickensian London : twenty-five original walks through London’s Victorian quarters features walks that take you through an area used as the setting for one or more of Dickens’s novels, from the peaceful, cobble-stoned, and lamp-lit Inns of Court featured in Great Expectations to the slums of Holborn portrayed in Oliver Twist.

 Make a virtual visit to the Dickens Museum in London, in the only remaining residence  of Charles Dickens in London.

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