In the first half of this book Peter Clark illuminates the settings of Dickens’s London scenes as they feature in his writing. The second half of this book takes the reader to the places Dickens knew and imaginatively wove into the tapestry of his stories: Chatham and Rochester, Canterbury and Dover.
Table of Contents
Introduction
London: Walk One
From Trafalgar Square to Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London: Walk Two
From Lincoln’s Inn Fields to the Mansion House
London: Walk Three
From Holborn Circus to Soho Square
London: Walk Four
From Bermondsey to Holborn Circus
London: Walk Five
From the Bank of England to Trafalgar Square via Southwark and Westminster
London: The First Suburbs
1. Camden Town
2. Chelsea
3. Greenwich
4. Hampstead
5. Highgate
6. Limehouse
London Into Kent
Kent: Gad’s Hill
Kent: The Medway Towns
Rochester and Strood
Chatham
Kent: Around the Medway Towns
The Marshes
Cobham
South of Rochester
Towards Canterbury
Kent: East Kent
Broadstairs
Margate
Deal
Dover
Folkestone
Canterbury
Kent: Staplehurst
Afterword
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
London: Walk One
From Trafalgar Square to Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London: Walk Two
From Lincoln’s Inn Fields to the Mansion House
London: Walk Three
From Holborn Circus to Soho Square
London: Walk Four
From Bermondsey to Holborn Circus
London: Walk Five
From the Bank of England to Trafalgar Square via Southwark and Westminster
London: The First Suburbs
1. Camden Town
2. Chelsea
3. Greenwich
4. Hampstead
5. Highgate
6. Limehouse
London Into Kent
Kent: Gad’s Hill
Kent: The Medway Towns
Rochester and Strood
Chatham
Kent: Around the Medway Towns
The Marshes
Cobham
South of Rochester
Towards Canterbury
Kent: East Kent
Broadstairs
Margate
Deal
Dover
Folkestone
Canterbury
Kent: Staplehurst
Afterword
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index