DICKENS AND THE CITY

Andrew Sanders will give a talk on Dickens and the City at Senate House Library on Wednesday 18 January. Tea at 5pm, talk starts at 6pm. Admission free, all welcome. If you would like to attend please contact Library Office, Senate House Library, tel 020 7862 8411.

The talk is in the Dr Eng T Lee Centre, Senate House Library, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU.

Dickens was the first, and probably remains the greatest, writer to use the experience of living and working in a great city as an integral part of his invention. He will always be associated with London. The Victorian city is uniquely recalled in his work, and modern readers, like their nineteenth-centrury predecessors, are vividly reminded of a physical pattern of streets, houses and public buildings transformed by a great writer's imagination. Andrew Sanders, whose study, Charles Dickens's London was published in 2012, will illustrate his talk with images drawn from a wealth of historic prints and photographs.