Peter Clark
Dickens' London: Bermondsey In Dickensian Literature
Celebrating the 200th Birthday of Charles Dickens
Fri, 10 Feb, 2012. 7pm

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Few novelists have written so intimately about a city in the way that Charles Dickens wrote about London. A near photographic memory made his contact with the city indelible from a very young age and it remained his constant focus. Dickens was drawn to the character of London itself, all aspects of the capital from the coaching inns of his early years to the taverns and watermen of the Thames; these were the constant cityscapes of his life and work. Based on five walks through central London, Peter Clark illuminates the settings of Dickens’s greatest works, his life, his journalism and his fiction. He also explores ‘The First Suburbs’ (Camden Town, Chelsea, Greenwich, Hampstead, Highgate and Limehouse) as they feature in Dickens’s writing. In this talk, Peter Clark will be focusing on the walk from Bermondsey to Holborn Circus, sharing highlights which feature in Dickens' all-time favourite Oliver Twist.

About Peter Clark

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Peter Clark spent most of his working life promoting cultural relations in the Middle East. He has a BA from the University of Keele and a PhD (though he chooses not to use it: he only scraped a PhD) from the University of Leicester on nineteenth century British history. He has translated novels, history, drama, poetry and short stories from Arabic. He has been a lover of Dickens since he read Oliver Twist at the age of 9; he has been reading and re-reading Dickens ever since. As a tour consultant, he enjoys demonstrating the connection between writing and place. Dickens’s bicentenary provided an opportunity to write this book.

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