Biography | Charles Dickens — The Doughty Street Rooms Where Oliver Twist Was Written
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Biography | Charles Dickens — The Doughty Street Rooms Where Oliver Twist Was Written
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On 25 March 1837 Dickens and Catherine took a three-year lease at 48 Doughty Street, then a gated Bloomsbury terrace.
It is the only one of his London houses still standing.
He finished The Pickwick Papers here, wrote Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, and began Barnaby Rudge.
Two daughters were born in the house.
Catherine's sister Mary Hogarth died here in May 1837, aged 17.
He left for 1 Devonshire Terrace in December 1839 as the household outgrew the rooms.
The Dickens Fellowship bought the freehold in 1923 to stop demolition.
The museum opened in 1925.
The pin is the study and the staircase a reader can still climb, not a later, grander address that no longer exists.
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons / Geograph
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