Hi and I'm Don Wildman. These days we all know the

famed 19th century writer Charles Dickens from the great novels he wrote.

Oliver Twist, Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, and many others including of course a Christmas Carol.

His was an unparalleled literary career, concerned with themes of social justice and class identity, as he probed the private realms of elite

aristocracy and those less privileged, often finding the noblest human traits in the denizens

of the streets and tenements of East London.

Like all iconic writers though, Dickens became the works he authored.

He was virtually replaced by his own characters.

So for those unfamiliar with Charles Huffman Dickens, The Man, a useful For those They were big stories in the day and to learn about those journeys. I traveled myself but in the opposite direction.

So I am walking on Dowdy Street in London, not too far from the British Museum, just up the street from London's West End,

and right in the smack in the middle things here, along a street with these beautiful townhouses to 48 Dowdy Street,

which happens to be the former home

of the legendary writer Charles Dickens.

This is the Charles Dickens Museum.

I have always wanted to see this place, and they have it set up apparently as if he just moved out. Let's go inside and check it out.

And I'm lucky to be meeting the director of the museum, Cindy Shaguru.

How are you doing?

Hello, I'm very well thank you.

Welcome.

Delighted to have you here.

Thank you very much.

Meeting in the uppermost room of what a five-story

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