Dickens meets Mr Pickwick at 48 Doughty Street

Front cover of The Sphere with an illustration by Charles Buchel showing Mr Pickwick welcoming Charles Dickens to 49 Doughty Street, London, his home from 1837-9, and where he wrote Pickwick Papers, began Nicholas Nickleby and started and finished Oliver Twist. The picture was published at the time the Dickens Fellowship acquired the address - it is now the Dickens House Museum. Dickens's wife is pictured looking out of the ground floor window

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1837 Buchel Dickens Doughty Fictional Pickwick Plaque Sphere Welcoming

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