The Charles Dickens Museum celebrates arguably the most iconic author of Victorian London, who lived and scribbled here in the late 1830s, recreating aspects of his daily life and career with manuscripts, paintings and original furniture.

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"I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain, to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body, " Charles Dickens wrote in the 1840s after he visited that Philadelphia prison, which is now a museum.

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