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Saturday 2 December from 1 to 3 pm
at The Wanstead Tap

Book signing
with Michael Rosen
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Saturday 9 December from 10 am to 5 pm
at Newham Bookshop

Christmas Discount Day
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all books in stock*
For all your
Christmas gifts

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Join author Lee Jackson discussing his latest
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Dickensland by Lee Jackson
Dickensland is published by Yale University Press in hardback at £20.

Lee Jackson

Dickensland

The Curious History of Dickens’s London

The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis.

For more than 150 years, tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Charles Dickens’s London ever since the death of the world-renowned author. Late Victorians and Edwardians were obsessed with tracking down the locations – dubbed Dickensland – that famously featured in his novels. But his fans were faced with a city that was undergoing rapid redevelopment, where literary shrines were far from sacred.

Over the following century, sites connected with Dickens were demolished, relocated, and reimagined. Lee Jackson traces the fascinating history of Dickensian tourism, exploring both real Victorian London and a fictional city shaped by fandom, tourism, and heritage entrepreneurs. Beginning with the late nineteenth century, Jackson investigates key sites of literary pilgrimage and their relationship with Dickens and his work, revealing hidden, reinvented, and even faked locations.

From vanishing coaching inns to submerged riverside stairs, hidden burial grounds to apocryphal shops, Dickensland charts the curious history of an imaginary world.






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