Rambles in Dickens' Land

by Robert Allbut

OLIVER TWIST.

Mr. Brownlow’s Residence, in “a quiet shady street near Pentonville,” cannot he fairly localised. In the days of “Oliver Twist,” Mr. George Cruikshank, the illustrator of the book, lived at Myddelton Terrace, Pentonville; and possibly Dickens bethought himself of this vicinity in consequence.

Fagin’s House in Whitechapel and the residence of Bill Sykes cannot, with any fairness, be accurately indicated. The latter is spoken of as being in “one of a maze of mean and dirty streets, which abound in the close and densely populated quarter of Bethnal Green.”