The Great Expectations from 48 Doughty Street

At the end of my childhood and the beginning of my teenage years, I was

fascinated by the movie ”Great Expectations”, an adaptation of the novel of
the same title by Charles Dickens. I was so impressed by the destiny of the
main character, Pip, but especially by the atmosphere of Victorian England.
This was the impulse to document more about Charles Dickens, a writer
whose work is characterized by realism, criticism of society, irony, and humor.

Charles Dickens was born on February 7 1812 in Landport Portsmouth,

and during his life, he had many residences, one of them being 48 Doughty
Street. Although he lived in this residence only in the period 1837-1839, being
the only one left standing, it became the writer's memorial house. During the
time he lived in this house, he finished the Pickwick Papers, began in 1836,
wrote Oliver Twist in its entirety in 1838, Nicholas Nickelby wrote between
1838-1839 and began Barnaby Rudge. The building at 48 Doughty Street was
threatened with demolition in 1923 but was saved by the Dickens Fellowship,
an international association founded in 1902, composed of different
categories of people whose common interest was in the life and work of the
novelist Charles Dickens. This foundation raised the mortgage and bought the
property. The house was renovated and became the Dickens House Museum,
opened in 1925.

For anyone interested in Dickens and his work, this building is an

objective that cannot be missed, a good purpose for a trip. The location of this
objective in London is also an opportunity to visit other places in the British
capital.