Contents page[Introduction] [11][The London Dickens Knew] [20][Dickens' Literary Life] [47][The Highway of Letters] [60][Dickens' Contemporaries] [73][The Locale of the Novels] [99][Disappearing London] [119][The County of Kent] [139][The River Thames] [160][Manners and Customs] [181][Past and Present] [211][The Under World] [236][London Topography] [246][A Brief Chronology] [287][Index] [289]