Great innovations: Dickens and architecture

York Water Gate and the Adelphi from the River by Moonlight (circa 1850), two of the many buildings featured in Dickens’s novels that no longer stand.

Source: Museum of London

Dickens’s approach to architecture was more phlegmatic and utilitarian than many bicentenary tributes suggest

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