Great innovations: Dickens and architecture

By Gavin Stamp2012-02-07T08:39:00

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.

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

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