I’ve recently returned from a trip to London and, as I’ve already been to Charles Dickens’ birthplace, I felt it was fitting to visit the Charles Dickens Museum.
Number 48 Doughty Street was where Dickens’ lived from 1837 to 1839 and it’s where he wrote some of his most famous works including Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby. It opened as a museum in 1925.
The home is furnished with a lot of authentic pieces, many purchased from Dickens’ final home at Gads Hill.
The house was set up as if the owners had just stepped out for a moment. The dining table laid to receive some of Dickens’ contemporaries;
Whilst downstairs, the kitchen (complete with hedgehog to catch bug infestations) was busy preparing the food;
and upstairs in the study, the desk sat, patiently waiting for it’s master to return;
The house is a wonderful, evocative place to…
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