Literary London

Charles Dickens Museum

The only London house of Dickens's still standing, where Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby were written.

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Dickens rented 48 Doughty Street from 1837 to 1839, arriving as the twenty-five-year-old author of the Pickwick Papers and leaving famous. In these rooms he finished Pickwick, wrote the whole of Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby and began Barnaby Rudge, and here his sister-in-law Mary Hogarth died at seventeen, a loss that shaped the deaths of Little Nell and half a dozen others. The house keeps the desk he wrote at, the lectern from his reading tours and the sofa he died on, with the kitchen and wash-house restored below stairs.

Where

48-49 Doughty Street, WC1N 2LX

Nearest station

Russell Square · 7 min walk

Step-free access

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