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Charles Dickens Museum

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Charles Dickens Museum London
Charles Dickens Museum London

The Charles Dickens Museum is an author's house museum at 48 Doughty Street in King's Cross, in the London Borough of Camden. It occupies a typical Georgian terraced house which was Charles Dickens's home from 25 March 1837 (a year after his marriage) to December 1839.

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Charles Dickens Museum
Doughty Street, London Holborn (London Borough of Camden)

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