Charles Dickens' London: The Pickwick Papers

Taking Dickens' novels as nearly as possible chronologically, let us begin with The Pickwick Papers, which appeared in 1848.

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In 1900 Lant Street, Borough, recalled Mr. Bob Sawyer and his irascible landlady, Mrs. Raddle.

In the Borough High Street, on the left-hand side, just beyond Guy's Hospital, was the George Inn, which from its resemblance will do duty for the White Hart (pulled down), where Pickwick was first introduced to Sam Weller, the "boots."

In Freeman's Court, Cornhill, stood the office of Messrs. Dodson and Fogg, "in the ground-floor front of a dingy house at the very furthest end." It is really in Cheapside, and boasts of only four houses.

Portsmouth Street, Clare Market, is the locality where the Magpie and Stump, patronized by Mr. Lowten, is supposed to have been; and in Gray's Inn were the offices of his employer, Mr. Parker, Pickwick's solicitor.

The Guildhall recalls the old court where the immortal trial of Bardell against Pickwick was heard and decided.

Off Farringdon Street, we recollect, once stood the Fleet prison, wherein Pickwick, the faithful Sam Weller, Jingle, Job Trotter, and, ultimately, Mrs. Bardell, were immured.

Taking a jaunt to Dulwich, we find Pickwick Villa (a good stone's throw from the college), where the benevolent old gentleman settled down; the lawn in front was gone by 1900, and its place was filled with shrubs and trees, but there was the villa as Dickens described it, a comfortable one-storied house just suitable for a bachelor, looking on the road from behind old-fashioned posts and chains.

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