Literary Londoners: Charles Dickens

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Continuing the Literary Londoners series, this lecture centres on Charles Dickens’ relationship with London, a city which he knew intimately and developed a love/hate relationship with, noting how it possessed both “wealth and beggary / vice and virtue”.

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This event was on Mon, 19 Feb 1996

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Professor Michael Slater

Professor Michael Slater MBE is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of London, having been at Birkbeck until his retirement...

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