Dickens's England was a time of unprecedented energy and change which laid the foundations of our own modern society. There was a new world coming into being: n

The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.

Life, Society, Family, Economy, and Politics in early and mid-Victorian England mediated through the life and writings of arguably the nation's greatest novelis

A “delightful reader’s companion” (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontës, and more

Archival photographs illustrate this guide to Victorian London seen through the eyes of Charles Dickens. Setting Dickens against the city that was the backdrop