Visual Materials
Collection of photographs illustrating places mentioned in the works of Charles Dickens
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- A collection of 127 photographs depicting places throughout England featured in the writings of Charles Dickens as they appeared in approximately 1890 to approximately 1910. Most of the photographs feature the exteriors of buildings in London, Rochester, Canterbury, Dover, Kent, and Portsmouth. The buildings include shops, residences, rooming houses, inns and hotels, cathedrals, churches, abbeys, and a castle. There are multiple photographs of Rochester Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral, and Gray's Inn. The majority of the photographs depict locations in Dickens's novels. Handwritten captions on the verso reference the work's title and occasionally the chapter in which the place appears.The novels represented are Bleak House (no. 1-11); David Copperfield (no. 12-23); Great expectations (no. 24-25); Little Dorrit (no. 26-30); Martin Chuzzlewit (no. 31-44); The mystery of Edwin Drood (no. 45-64); Nicholas Nickleby (no. 66-67); Oliver Twist (no. 68-74); and Pickwick papers (no. 76-78). There is also a group of photographs depicting locations in the "Tramps" chapter of Dickens's The uncommercial traveler (no. 79-84), as well as locations where Dickens himself stayed during his writing and travels (no. 86-121).
