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5 unusual facts about Charles Dickens Museum


Charles Dickens Museum

She inspired characters in many of his books, and her death is fictionalized as the death of Little Nell.

A new addition to the household was Dickens' younger brother Frederick.

This unfinished portrait shows Dickens in his study at Gads Hill Place surrounded by many of the characters he had created.

The building at 48 Doughty Street was threatened with demolition in 1923, but was saved by the Dickens Fellowship, founded in 1902, who raised the mortgage and bought the property's freehold.

It occupies a typical Georgian terraced house which was Charles Dickens' home from 25 March 1837 (a year after his marriage) to December 1839.



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