THE CHARLES DICKENS MUSEUM - LONDON
A Social Conscience of Victorian England
Charles
Dickens just celebrated his 200th Birthday. Well other people did.
Dickens was born a dock worker’s
son in Kent where the Thames River wound to the sea and the currents
would
carry
the
crap and
creosote of Victorian London to the shipping docks of the lower river.
From this rough hard scrabble world Dickens came to London to become
one of the worlds best loved authors of the English
language,
known for
his social commentary as much as for the depth and humored color of his
characters. Dickens can currently be found buried with honor in Westminster
Abby where you have to watch your feet not to step on his commemorative
grave marker, but in
his lifetime he traveled a good deal and lived in a few houses, but Dickens did
a good deal of his writing from an upstairs room in his house in Bloomsbury.
The
house at 48 Doughty Street is now the Charles Dickens Museum where
many of his letters, manuscripts and personal items can be viewed in rooms reconstructed
with furniture
and paintings from his time.
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Dickens
became famous in his own life as much from his writings as from his
readings of them to sold-out crowds with tickets as hard to get as
a modern day
U2 concert. The museum offers readings from Dickens’ beloved
books. A new exhibit “Ignorance and Want: the Social Conscience
of Charles Dickens” tells the story of Dickens’ focus
on social reforming inspired by his early childhood days on the Chatham
docks of the Thames River and expressed in his novels Oliver Twist and
Nicholas Nickleby (see British Museum Treasures) which were both written in the house which comprises
the museum.
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Dickens ranks in English literature alongside Shakespeare, though Dickens had his doubts of the man from Stratford-on-Avon, where Dickens’ autograph can still be found etched into a window glass pane along with contemporary author and humorist, Mark Twain (see The Stratford Man) and Frankenstein author Mary Shelley (see Mary Shelley's London). © Bargain Travel Europe
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