Abstract

Emma Treleaven gives us an insight into Dickens’s interiors and reveals how the Dickens House Museum faced the challenges of lockdown.

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  • I’m Emma Treleaven, and until recently I was the assistant curator at the Charles Dickens Museum

  • Dickens moved into 48 Doughty Street with his family in 1837, renting the property for the middle-class sum of £80 a year

  • He took up residence with his wife Catherine and their baby son Charley in what he called ‘his house in town’ (Fig. 1)

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Introduction

I’m Emma Treleaven, and until recently I was the assistant curator at the Charles Dickens Museum. My job was a mix of taking care of the museum’s historic house, collections, library, and archive, as well as running research appointments, answering enquiries, and helping out with the museum’s social media.

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