In the Same Place

Felix O. C. Darley

1861

Photogravure

10.1 x 8.5 cm vignetted

Dickens's Pickwick Papers, Riverside Edition, the second half of the second volume, facing page 53.

The debtors' prison in which John Dickens was incarcerated when his son Charles was just twelve — The Marshalsea — gave the writer plenty of personal experience on which to draw for Pickwick's misadventures in the Fleet Rison in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. [Commentary continued below.]

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