Mary Evans Dickens transforms school room to theatre in Tavistock House 11033349

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Picture No	11033349
Date	1851-1860
Description	Dickens transforms school room to theatre in Tavistock House
Details	The novelist, Charles Dickens pictured reading from one of his scripts in the large schoolroom at his home in Tavistock Square, London. Dickens and his family lived in Travistock Square, in Tavistock House, where he converted the former school room, into a theatre. Here, Dickens wrote Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit and A Tale of Two Cities, and later began staging amateur theatricals in the same room. The stage and scenery were built and painted by Clarkson Stanfield R. A. and W. Telbin.
Source	Illustration by Fortunino Matania in Britannia and Eve, December 1944
Credit	© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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