MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)'s photos with the keyword: marshalsea

Peabody Trust social housing, Marshalsea Road Estate, Southwark

Peabody Trust social housing, Marshalsea Road, Southwark

Dickens Walk in Southwark. www.walksoflondon.co.uk/31/index.shtml Angel Place, called Angel Court in Dickens's time, is just off Borough High Street, next to the John Harvard Library. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Dickens Walk in Southwark. www.walksoflondon.co.uk/31/index.shtml These pages of Little Dorrit are in Angle Place, near the one remaining wall of the Marshalsea Prison. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Dickens Walk in Southwark. www.walksoflondon.co.uk/31/index.shtml These pages of Little Dorrit are in Angle Place, near the one remaining wall of the Marshalsea Prison. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Dickens Walk in Southwark. www.walksoflondon.co.uk/31/index.shtml Dickens was haunted by Marshalsea Prison. It dominates Little Dorrit, the heroine of which is a debtor’s daughter, born and raised within its confines. And Dickens was speaking from personal experience when he wrote about ‘the games of the prison children as they whooped and ran, and played at hide-and-seek, and made the iron bars of the inner gateway “Home”’. He wrote in the same novel that the Marshalsea ‘is gone now, and the world is none the worse without it’. But, as he neared the book’s completion, spurred on by letters from readers of the serialization enquiring what had become of it, he returned to look upon what remained. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Dickens Walk in Southwark. www.walksoflondon.co.uk/31/index.shtml See where this picture was taken. [?]

Dickens Walk in Southwark. www.walksoflondon.co.uk/31/index.shtml It was here that John Dickens was incarcerated for debt in 1824. Before being taken, he turned to his 12-year-old son and told him tearfully, ‘the sun was set on him for ever’. ‘I really believed at the time,’ Dickens later told John Forster, that these words ‘had broken my heart.’ Dickens recalled how, when he first visited his father here he ‘was waiting for me in the lodge… and [we] cried very much… And he told me, I remember… that if a man had twenty pounds a year, and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence, he would be happy; but that a shilling spent the other way would make him wretched.’ Mr Micawber would later give the same advice to David Copperfield in the most autobiographical of all Dickens’s novels. See where this picture was taken. [?]