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Tag: streets named after fictional characters

Pickwick Road, SE21

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Place Name Samuel Pickwick is the eponymous leader of the Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens’s widely successful first novel – originally told…

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Filed under: Charles Dickens, dickens, Dulwich, Dulwich Village, literature, Southwark, streets named after fictional characters, streets named after literary figures

Pickwick Way, BR7

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Place Name The Pickwick Papers was Charles Dickens’s widely successful first novel – originally told as a part work –…

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Filed under: Bromley, Charles Dickens, Chislehurst, cluster, dickens, streets named after fictional characters

Copperfield Street, SE1

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Place Name Originally Orange Street. It is named after the eponymous hero of Charles Dickens’s novel David Copperfield whose ever…

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Filed under: Borough and Bankside, Charles Dickens, dickens, Southwark, streets named after fictional characters

Little Dorrit Court, SE1

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Place Name Previously the site of Falcon Court. Charles Dickens wrote extensively about the notorious Marshalsea  debtors’ prison where his…

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Dorrit Street, SE1

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Place Name Ironic name since Little Dorrit Court not far away is far larger. Charles Dickens wrote extensively about the notorious…

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Filed under: Charles Dickens, dickens, literature, Southwark, streets named after fictional characters, streets named after literary figures, streets named after women, women

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