"What is London?"

Burke.

"I began to study a map of London ... the river is of no assistance to a stranger in finding his way."

Southey.

Contents

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[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]

List of Illustrations

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Charles Dickens[Frontispiece]
No. 8 Craven Street, Strand.—Mr. Tulkinghorn's House[14]
Dickens' House in Devonshire Terrace.—No. 48 Doughty Street, Where Dickens Lived[54]
The Reading of "The Chimes" at Forster's House, in Lincoln's Inn Fields[57]
Charles Dickens, His Wife, and Sister Georgina[87]
Plan of "The Poets' Corner"[97]
Residence of John Forster, Lincoln's Inn Fields[105]
The (Reputed) "Old Curiosity Shop"[127]
Dickens' Study at Gad's Hill Place[148]
Billingsgate[172]
London Bridge[176]
"Going to the Pantomime"[193]
Smithfield Market[207]
Interior of St. Paul's Cathedral during the Duke of Wellington's Funeral[215]
Lord Mayor's Procession, Ascending Ludgate Hill[221]
"The City," London[246]
London at the Time of the Great Fire[250]
The Wards of the City[253]
Whitechapel[281]