Biography | Charles Dickens — The Mile End Terrace House Where He Was Born
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Biography | Charles Dickens — The Mile End Terrace House Where He Was Born
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People treat Charles Dickens as a London novelist who arrived already formed.
He was born here on 7 February 1812, in a modest brick house then called 1 Mile End Terrace, Landport.
His father, John Dickens, clerked for the Navy Pay Office at the Portsmouth dockyard.
The family left within months.
The same house later became 393 Old Commercial Road.
Portsmouth has owned it since 1904.
It is now Charles Dickens' Birthplace Museum, Grade I listed, shown as a late-Georgian interior rather than a cabinet of objects he never saw as an adult.
The pin is the building that held the birth, not a later London address that swallowed the story.
Photo: Austriantraveler, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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