- in Dickens' library

Dickens was only 58 years old when he died of a stroke in 1870. In his relatively short life he gave the world A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, The Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, and much more...

In was in this house that he wrote The Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby, and Oliver Twist.

His last words were, "Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art."