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... nearby Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital that Dickens gave his first public reading . The success of his reading of A Christmas Carol in 1858 led Dickens onto a career as a public performer of his own work . The affluent City ...
... nearby Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital that Dickens gave his first public reading . The success of his reading of A Christmas Carol in 1858 led Dickens onto a career as a public performer of his own work . The affluent City ...
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... nearby area of Covent Garden . The Strand and its alleyways were a favourite haunt of prostitutes and pickpockets . Once Dr Johnson out walking with Boswell after their supper at the Turk's Head Coffee - House was accosted by a woman in ...
... nearby area of Covent Garden . The Strand and its alleyways were a favourite haunt of prostitutes and pickpockets . Once Dr Johnson out walking with Boswell after their supper at the Turk's Head Coffee - House was accosted by a woman in ...
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... nearby cathe- dral of St Pauls and was attached to the monastery of Grey- friars . At the dissolution of the monasteries the church was used as a store house for plundered French wine , and the King's Printer set up his presses in the ...
... nearby cathe- dral of St Pauls and was attached to the monastery of Grey- friars . At the dissolution of the monasteries the church was used as a store house for plundered French wine , and the King's Printer set up his presses in the ...
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Bloomsbury | 3 |
The British Museum | 11 |
The Inns of Court | 40 |
Copyright | |
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