Historic, Vintage, Cool (London)
By Karen Beishuizen
I have this thing for anything historic, vintage or cool. Especially when it comes to hotels, restaurants, diners, cafes and music venues. I want to show you landmarks around the world which are Historic, Vintage and Cool.
London is calling!
Charles Dickens Museum
Charles Dickens was an author. He wrote fifteen novels between 1836 and 1870, including some of the world’s most famous works: The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol.
He was also a strong advocate for the poor and working class families of Britain. In many of his books you can read about poor characters who make it against all odds.
The museum is situated at 48 Doughty Street, Dickens’s London home from 1837-1839. While living in Doughty Street, he finished writing The Pickwick Papers, wrote Nicholas Nickleby and Oliver Twist.
After the Dickenses left Doughty Street, the Dickens Fellowship purchased it as their headquarters in 1923. The house opened to the public in 1925 and houses a significant collection linked to Dickens and his works.
Today the Charles Dickens Museum is set up as though Dickens himself had just left. It appears as a fairly typical middle-class Victorian home, complete with furnishings, portraits and decorations which are known to have belonged to Dickens.
A visit to the museum allows you to step back into 1837 and to see a world in which one of the greatest writers in the English language, found his inspiration.
For more information check out the museum’s website: HERE
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