Showing posts with label Dickens (Charles). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dickens (Charles). Show all posts
9 July 2014

Flo Morse: The Story of the Shakers (1986)

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Flo Morse's book is only short – about one hundred pages – but there's a great deal of information in it. What I didn'...
29 August 2012

Charles Dickens in London: London #13

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St George the Martyr at the junction of Long Lane, Marshalsea Road, and Tabard Street in Southwark is also called 'Little Dorrit...
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3 August 2012

Claire Tomalin: Charles Dickens: A Life (2011)

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It seems appropriate to read a biography of Charles Dickens (1812–70) in this, the bicentenary of his birth, and although I've been ...
16 May 2012

Charles Dickens Connections in Kensal Green Cemetery, London

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The grave of Robert Bell (1800–67) is now illegible. He was born in Cork, Ireland, and moved to London where he first worked as an editor fo...
12 May 2012

George Cruickshank's Grave, Kensal Green Cemetery, London

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'In Loving Memory OF GEORGE CRUICKSHANK, ARTIST, DESIGNER, ETCHER, PAINTER, BORN SEPT. 27TH., 1792, DIED FEBY. 1ST., 1878, AT 263 HAMPST...
5 May 2012

William Hones's Grave in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington

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'THE FAMILY GRAVE OF WILLIAM HONE WHO WAS BORN AT BATH THE 3RD. OF JUNE A.D. 1780 AND DIED AT TOTTENHAM THE 6TH. OF NOVEMBER A.D. 1...
1 May 2012

Angela Burdett-Coutts and Charles Dickens, London

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This Gothic drinking fountain in Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets, designed by H. A. Darbyshire, was a gift by Angela Burdett-Coutts (1814–19...
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29 April 2012

Charles Dickens and Characters in Marylebone Road, London

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'WHILE LIVING IN A HOUSE ON THIS SITE CHARLES DICKENS WROTE SIX OF HIS PRINCIPAL WORKS, CHARACTERS FROM WHICH APPEAR IN THIS SCULPTU...
13 April 2012

Charles Dickens in Portsmouth, Hampshire

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Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 at 393 Old Portsmouth Road (formerly Mile End Terrace, and the 1871 sketch above sh...
6 August 2010

Charles Dickens in Kingston upon Hull

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This building in Kingston Square, Kingston upon Hull, was built in 1830 as the Assembly Rooms, designed by R. H. Sharp under the direction...
4 May 2010

Sydney Smith, Charles Dickens, Vera Brittain, and Winifred Holtby at Doughty Street, Bloomsbury: Literary London #21

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The impressive Doughty Street had security gates at each end in Charles Dickens's day: it was a very short distance from the slums of ...