Charles Dickens At Home

One of our best-loved authors, who wrote Hard Times and Oliver Twist, was born 200 years ago on 7 February. A new book, Charles Dickens At Home by Hilary Macaskill (Frances Lincoln, £25), explores Dickens the man and writer through the houses he lived in and the homes he loved.

The foreword is by Dr Florian Schweizer, director of the Charles Dickens Museum in London, and his insight into the importance of the concept of home to the writer of Bleak House is a key start to the story. ‘As an author whose personal experience of home ranged from the debtors’ prison to the dream country mansion, Dickens instilled into all his fiction ideals of exemplary domesticity as well as a genuine connectedness to a wide spectrum of life experiences,’ writes Schweizer.

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