Mr Dickens and his Dog in Doughty Street (AW25)

Number 48, Doughty Street in Holborn was the home of novelist Charles Dickens from 1837 to 1839 and is now a museum dedicated to his life.
Thanks to the success of The Pickwick Papers Dickens was moving up in the world and could afford the £80 lease on this elegant terraced residence in a private, gated street. He and his wife Catherine lived in this house with three of their eventual ten children. Their two eldest daughters were born here.
During the brief period he lived here Dickens completed The Pickwick Papers, wrote the whole of Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby and worked on Barnaby Rudge.