Charles Dickens' London home to reopen to the public after £3.1 million revamp — independent.co.uk

The house, on Doughty Street in central London’s Bloomsbury, has been stripped of as many modern features as possible in a £3.1m revamp which the curators hope will give visitors the impression that the author has just “stepped outside”. When it reopens on next Monday, visitors will be able to tour the house where Dickens lived with his new wife and young family around the time that Queen Victoria ascended the throne. As well, as Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, he finished writing The Pickwick Papers, while living at 48 Doughty Street.

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