“People may be surprised to hear about this,” he said. “The scene […] needed to establish the relationship between Charles Dickens and his wife. […] And at the same time, […] Dickens must have been ...

Dickens lived in the town house during the early years of his marriage to wife Catherine, completing The Pickwick Papers and writing Oliver Twist in the rented property in Holborn, central London ...

In the spring of 1837, the newly famous, upwardly mobile Dickens moved into a four-story Georgian town house in the Bloomsbury neighborhood at 48 Doughty Street with his wife, their infant son ...