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This conference will explore Charles Dickens's relationship with London and the ways in which the capital influenced and shaped his life, his work and his social conscience.
Speakers include: Alex Werner (Museum of London) and Tony Williams, Dickens’s Victorian London; Michael Allen, Charles Dickens and the Blacking Factory; Jenny Hartley (Roehampton University), Charles Dickens and the Fallen Women of London; Nicholas Waloff, Dickens’s Other Family – servants in Dickens’s life; and Ruth Richardson, Dickens and the Workhouse. There will also be readings from Peter Clark’s Dickens’s London.
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