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Short Breaks: 48 hours in Dickensian London In our capital's bustling, modern streets, Duncan Turner and Simon Calder discover the Victorian city Charles Dickens made immortal, and consider how to have the best of times

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020112
Author:Duncan Turner and Simon Calder

The Old Curiosity Shop, reputedly the oldest shop in London

WHY GO NOW?

Dickens is to London what Joyce is to Dublin, Hugo is to Paris and Kafka is to Prague. The ramshackle wharves, labyrinthine streets and infernal slums have been cleared away now, but their imprint survives. Even though London is no longer swathed in sooty, sulphurous fog, plenty of vestiges of Dickens remain in the capital. With the 190th anniversary of Dickens's birth approaching, now is the time to pack a case full of the master's works and to explore the city that England's greatest social novelist made immortal.

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