Charles Dickens Museum

Address: | 48 Doughty Street, WC1N 2LX |
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Phone: | 020-7405 2127 |
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Opening times: | Mon–Sun 10:00–17:00 |
How to get there: | Tube: Russell Square |
Entry fee: | Admission charge |
Additional information: | Limited disabled access, shop |
The novelist Charles Dickens (1812–70), his wife Catherine and their infant son Charles, came to live at this late 18th-century house in March 1837, and stayed until the end of 1839. Here, two daughters, Mary and Kate, were added to the family, and Dickens established his fame as a writer with the publication of Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby. The house, saved from demolition by the Dickens Fellowship in 1922, is a place of pilgrimage, and holds an enormous collection of Dickens memorabilia, including portraits of the novelist, his family and friends, personal relics, for example his snuff-box and cigar-cutter, autograph letters and manuscripts, and a comprehensive Dickens library. The clutter of a literary shrine does not entirely destroy the atmosphere of the family house it once was. |
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