Dickens’s London is more elusive than the artful dodger himself

Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London Lee Jackson

Yale University Press, pp.272, 20

Is Dickens’s London a place, or a state of mind, or a bit of both? I used to ask myself the question all the time when I was literary editor of this periodical and our office in Doughty Street was a few doors down from the Dickens Museum, at no.

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TaggedCharles Dickens, literary tourism, Old London Bridge, Oliver Twist, Saffron Hill, the Marshalsea, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Pickwick Papers, the Thames

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Dickens’s London is more elusive than the artful dodger himself

Admirers of the novels have always enjoyed identifying their settings where possible, but Dickens’s old haunts are now mainly glimpsed in street names or blue plaques

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