Charles Dickens Museum

A biographical museum in a Georgian terraced house on Doughty Street, the only surviving London home of the novelist Charles Dickens. He lived here in the late 1830s and wrote Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby within its walls. The rooms are furnished to reflect the period, displaying manuscripts, letters, portraits and first editions. Visitors climb from the servants' basement kitchen to the study where Dickens worked. The collection is the world's most important assemblage relating to the author.