Rare objects by Charles Dickens at a museum exhibition in London

Collection of rare objects associated with the 19th century legendary, Charles Dickens is to be presented at the Museum where it is dedicated to his life and work. The new exhibition is organized on the occasion of the completion of 100 years since the author’s first family home on Dowtie Street, Bloomsbury, London, was rescued by demolition and became the Charles Dickens Museum. CORVERSE In the exhibition “The Dickens in Doughty Street: 100 Years of the Charles Dickens Museum” which will be inaugurated in February and will last until the end of June 2025, a chalk and pastel sketch created by Dickens will first be presented at the time he lived there. English novelist wrote the stories that made him internationally known – The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby – while living at home on Dowtie Street. Among the items is a copy of the David Copperfield project transferred to Antarctica by Captain Scott’s Terra Nova campaign in 1910-12, according to the BBC. Stuck in an ice cave the crew read a chapter every night for sixty nights and the book bears black fingerprints of its members probably had been created by the fire, in which they burned seal fat to warm up. The works of Dickens’ favorite illustrators, including Fred Barnard, John Leach and George Goodwin Kilburn, as well as the first designs for the first edition of A Christmas Carol will also be exhibited. Cindy Suru, director of the Museum, said the exhibition would include personal items, portraits, photographs and historical relics that would illuminate Charles Dickens’ life and works. The author stayed at home in Bloomsbury with his wife and son from 1837 to 1839 and is the only surviving in London in which he lived.