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years earlier didn't go so well as you know, Dickens couldn't get funds for his readings, found Americans vulgar, etc.
What a shame I never realized that his home was a museum and open to visit, (since 1925) given the number of times I was in London. I could kick myself, esp. since history and historic properties are a large part of my work as a museum specialist. Same with Abbey Road, the area and studio! Dumb...
- Charles Dickens's study, home and museum, London.
The museum is situated at 48 Doughty Street, Dickens’s London home from 1837-1839. He moved there with his wife Catherine and their eldest son Charlie. While living in Doughty Street, Dickens finished writing The Pickwick Papers, wrote Nicholas Nickleby and most famously of all, Oliver Twist. These early publications made Dickens an international celebrity, even Queen Victoria was a fan!
After the Dickenses left Doughty Street, the property was largely used as a boarding house until the Dickens Fellowship purchased it as their headquarters in 1923. The house opened to the public in 1925 and houses a significant collection linked to Dickens and his works.
Today the Charles Dickens Museum is set up as though Dickens himself had just left. It appears as a fairly typical middle-class Victorian home, complete with furnishings, portraits and decorations which are known to have belonged to Dickens. A visit to the museum allows you to step back into 1837 and to see a world which is at once both intimately familiar, yet astonishingly different. A world in which one of the greatest writers in the English language, found his inspiration. https://dickensmuseum.com/pages/about-us
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