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Dickens and London
Opens: 09/12/2011 Closes: 10/06/2012
Museum of London
There hasn't been a UK show dedicated to Dickens since 1970, so this new exhibition highlighting the bond between the man, his work and the city is certainly overdue. Kicking off a year of 200th birthday celebrations, there's a packed events calendar and displays as varied as original manuscripts, and costumes from television adaptations.
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Time Out“Dickens's writing emerges as remarkably contemporary...” With a near-photographic memory, Dickens would plot the tales minutely in his head. His ear for the nuances of speech was also acute and the voices he heard on his nocturnal rambles are accurately reflected in his writing...
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Guardian“One part of a Dickens-crazy 2012...” The show features rarely seen manuscripts of his works including Great Expectations, David Copperfield and Bleak House but it also tries to give a sense of what Dickens's London looked like and will include numerous paintings of Victorian London...
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The Telegraph“The first consideration of the overlap between the man and the city...” This exhibition doesn’t disappoint, including as it does a host of objects rescued from the sewer-laden channels that ran through Jacobs Island (current day Bermondsey), where Bill Sykes meets his nasty end...
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