Charles Dickens in Petersham

Elm cottage sketchDickens Close, Petersham

“Sketched from Sudbrook-lane. This is the house to which Dickens removed from Twickenham. Part of ‘Nicholas Nickleby’ was written here.” From the Richmond and Twickenham Times, Dec. 19, 1903. [About sixty years after the Dickens family was in residence.]
Reprinted by kind permission of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Local Studies Collection.
Dickens Close, off Sudbrook Lane, Petersham. Photo copyright © Terri McCargar.


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