From The Guardian.
Charles Dickens Museum showcases its collections to celebrate centenary
By Caroline Davies.
Items in special exhibition displayed for first time include copy of David Copperfield taken by Scott to Antarctica
A seal blubber-stained copy of David Copperfield which survived Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s 1910 expedition to Antarctica and a draft of Charles Dickens’s public letter announcing his separation from his wife will form part of an exhibition marking the centenary of the opening of the writer’s former London house as a museum.
Hundreds crammed inside the Georgian terrace in Bloomsbury in 1925, spilling on to the pavement, as 48 Doughty Street was saved from demolition 55 years after the death of its most famous resident.
A century later at the Charles Dickens Museum, the family home where Dickens wrote The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, a new centenary exhibition will showcase its collections, with some items seen for the first time.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/dec/22/charles-dickens-museum-showcases-its-collections-to-celebrate-centenary
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