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Following is a list of sites in London associated
with Charles Dickens
- Cut-throat Lane - Slum
- Charles Dickens drew attention to the conditions in 1850 when he wrote of "a plague spot scarcely equalled for its insalubrity by any other in London". From 1846-8, life expectancy in the area was just 11 years 7 months - compared with the London average of 37. Today, singer Robbie Williams and actress Liz Hurley live in this area.
- Dickens, Charles
- DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870),
- Novelist, lived here.
- Jacob Street - Slums
- This area was one of the worst slums in 19 century London. Cholera was common. In Dickens Oliver Twist this is the area where Bill Sykes dies.
- Prison - Marshalsea
- Second only in importance to the Tower. It finally closed in 1842. Dickens’s father was an prisoner here and his character Little Dorrit was born here.
- Saffron Hill - Slum
- This was a notorious criminal ghetto. Dickens wrote about in Oliver Twist.
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