狄更斯博物馆
Charles Dickens Museum
伦敦 · 英国
1837年3月25日，查尔斯·狄更斯与妻子凯瑟琳搬进布卢姆斯伯里道蒂街48号。这是一栋典型的乔治风格联排住宅，也是狄更斯在伦敦唯一留存至今的住所。这里曾住着夫妇二人、他们最年长的三个孩子、狄更斯的弟弟弗雷德里克，以及凯瑟琳17岁的妹妹玛丽。玛丽在1837年短暂病逝于狄更斯怀中，她后来成为许多作品中人物的灵感，也被写进《老古玩店》中小耐儿的死亡。狄更斯在这里完成《匹克威克外传》，写成《雾都孤儿》和《尼古拉斯·尼克贝》，并创作《巴纳比·拉奇》。
1923年，这栋房子面临拆除。1902年成立的狄更斯联谊会筹集抵押款，买下房屋的永久产权，使它免于消失。修缮后，狄更斯故居博物馆在1925年开放，由独立信托管理，如今是一家注册慈善机构。房屋于1954年列入保护名录。它的重要性不只在于收藏了手稿、初版、书信和个人物品，更在于这座仍然存在的住宅，把狄更斯家庭生活中短暂而充满创作力的两年保留下来。
At 48 Doughty Street, Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine made a home in a typical Georgian terraced house from 25 March 1837 until December 1839. They lived there with their eldest three children, Dickens's younger brother Frederick, and Catherine's 17-year-old sister Mary. The house witnessed both family life and an extraordinary burst of writing: Dickens completed The Pickwick Papers, wrote the whole of Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, and worked on Barnaby Rudge. Mary died in Dickens's arms after a brief illness in 1837. Her memory inspired characters in several books, and her death was fictionalized as the death of Little Nell.
The building faced demolition in 1923. The Dickens Fellowship, founded in 1902, raised the mortgage and bought the property's freehold, saving the house. After renovation, the Dickens House Museum opened in 1925 under an independent trust, now a registered charity; the house was listed in 1954. Its importance lies not only in its manuscripts, first editions, letters and personal objects, but in the survival of Dickens's only London house. The rooms preserve a place where private loss, family change and sustained literary work once occupied the same domestic space.
镇馆之宝
- 狄更斯之梦
- 凯瑟琳·狄更斯（1815—1879）
- 查尔斯·约翰·赫法姆·狄更斯肖像
- 乔治·比德内尔夫人
- 乔治·比德内尔（1773—1862）
- 查尔斯·狄更斯饰演查尔斯·科尔德斯特里姆爵士
- 《灯塔》剧舞台幕景
- 查尔斯·狄更斯举行公开朗读会
- 凯蒂·狄更斯（1839—1929）
- 凯蒂·佩鲁吉尼，原姓狄更斯（1839—1929）
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