Charles Dickens Museum
Charles Dickens’s most intimate London address was a typical Georgian terraced house in Doughty Street—his home from 25 March 1837 until December 1839. A year after his marriage, Dickens lived here with Catherine Dickens and the eldest three of their ten children, including daughters Mary Dickens and Kate Macready Dickens, who were born in the house. The household later expanded with Dickens’s younger brother Frederick, while Catherine’s support came from her 17-year-old sister Mary, who died in 1837. These years were also Dickens at work: he completed The Pickwick Papers (begun earlier but finished during this period), wrote the whole of Oliver Twist in 1838, and produced Nicholas Nickleby (spanning 1838–39), along with work on Barnaby Rudge (1840–41). The building survived because it was threatened with demolition in 1923 and was saved when the Dickens Fellowship, founded in 1902, raised the mortgage to buy the freehold. …
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