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The Charles Dickens Museum is at 48 Doughty Street
Doughty Street

Doughty Street is a broad street in the Holborn district of the London Borough of Camden. The southern part is a continuation of the short John Street , which comes off Theobalds Road....
 in the district of Holborn
Holborn

Holborn is an area of Central London, England. Holborn is also the name of the area's principal east-west street, running from St Giles's High Street as High Holborn to Gray's Inn Road to Holborn Viaduct, crossing the borders of the City of Westminster, London Borough of Camden and the City of London....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. It occupies a typical Georgian
Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking world to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four Monarchy of the United Kingdom of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United Kingdom, and George IV of the...
 terraced house which was Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens, Royal Society of Arts , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English people novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous Reform movement....
' home from April 1837 (a year after his marriage) to December 1839. He and his wife Catherine lived here with the eldest three of their ten children, with the older two of Dicken's daughters, Mary Dickens
Mary Dickens

Mary 'Mamie' Dickens was the oldest daughter of English people Novel Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine Dickens. She wrote a book of reminiscences about her father, and, with her aunt Georgina Hogarth, edited the first collection of his letters....
 and Kate Macready Dickens
Kate Perugini

Kate Perugini was an English painter of the Victorian era and the daughter of Charles Dickens....
 being born in the house. Dickens moved on to grander homes as his wealth increased and his family grew, but this is the only surviving house that he lived in in London.

Spread over four floors, the Charles Dickens Museum holds the world's most important collection of paintings, rare editions, manuscripts, original furniture and other items relating to the life and work of Dickens.






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The Charles Dickens Museum is at 48 Doughty Street
Doughty Street

Doughty Street is a broad street in the Holborn district of the London Borough of Camden. The southern part is a continuation of the short John Street , which comes off Theobalds Road....
 in the district of Holborn
Holborn

Holborn is an area of Central London, England. Holborn is also the name of the area's principal east-west street, running from St Giles's High Street as High Holborn to Gray's Inn Road to Holborn Viaduct, crossing the borders of the City of Westminster, London Borough of Camden and the City of London....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. It occupies a typical Georgian
Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking world to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four Monarchy of the United Kingdom of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United Kingdom, and George IV of the...
 terraced house which was Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens, Royal Society of Arts , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English people novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous Reform movement....
' home from April 1837 (a year after his marriage) to December 1839. He and his wife Catherine lived here with the eldest three of their ten children, with the older two of Dicken's daughters, Mary Dickens
Mary Dickens

Mary 'Mamie' Dickens was the oldest daughter of English people Novel Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine Dickens. She wrote a book of reminiscences about her father, and, with her aunt Georgina Hogarth, edited the first collection of his letters....
 and Kate Macready Dickens
Kate Perugini

Kate Perugini was an English painter of the Victorian era and the daughter of Charles Dickens....
 being born in the house. Dickens moved on to grander homes as his wealth increased and his family grew, but this is the only surviving house that he lived in in London.

Spread over four floors, the Charles Dickens Museum holds the world's most important collection of paintings, rare editions, manuscripts, original furniture and other items relating to the life and work of Dickens. Perhaps the best exhibit is the portrait of Dickens known as Dickens' Dream by R.W. Buss, an original illustrator of The Pickwick Papers. This unfinished portrait shows Dickens in his study at Gads Hill Place
Gads Hill Place

Gad's Hill Place in Higham, Kent, Kent, sometimes spelt Gadshill Place, was the country home of Charles Dickens, the most successful United Kingdom author of the Victorian era....
 surrounded by many of the characters he had created.

The two years that Dickens lived in the house were extremely productive, for here he completed The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. The illustrator Robert Seymour claimed that the idea for the novel was originally his; however, in his preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens strenuously denied any specific input, writing that "Mr Seymour never...
 (1836), wrote the whole of Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist is Charles Dickens second novel. The book was originally published in Bentley's Miscellany as a Serial , in monthly installments that began appearing in the month of February 1837 and continued through April 1839, originally intended to form part of Dickens' serial The Mudfog Papers....
 (1838) and Nicholas Nickleby (1838–9) and worked on Barnaby Rudge
Barnaby Rudge

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty is an historical novel by the author Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge was one of two novels that Dickens published in his short-lived weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, which lasted from 1840 to 1841, when Barnaby Rudge was published....
 (1840–41).

48 Doughty Street was threatened with demolition in 1923, but was saved by the Dickens Fellowship
Dickens Fellowship

The Dickens Fellowship was founded in 1902, and is an international association of people from all walks of life who share an interest in the life and works of Victorian era English novel Charles Dickens....
, founded in 1902, who raised the mortgage and bought the property's freehold. The house was renovated and the Dickens House Museum was opened in 1925, under the direction of an independent trust. The museum has since been renamed the Charles Dickens Museum.

See also

  • Dickens World
    Dickens World

    Dickens World is a themed attraction located at Chatham Dockyard in the England county of Kent. Privately funded, it cost ?62 million to create, and was opened to the public on 25 May 2007....
  • Museum Mile, London
    Museum Mile, London

    Museum Mile in London, England, may be:* Museum Mile in Bloomsbury, London Borough of Camden* Albertopolis in South Kensington...


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