The heroine of Dickens' novel Little Dorrit was one resident who was not a prisoner.
SE1, Borough High Street, Angel Alley
We've put the pin for these 6 plaques at the entrance to the alleyway but they are actually laid into the ground, distributed along the alley all the way to Tennis Street. We've numbered them west to east. In our picture you can see the old wall, the steel plaque and the first of the stone plaques.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Marshalsea 3 - stone - Little Dorrit
A novel by Charles Dickens first published in serial form 1855 and 1857. The...
Born, son of Elizabeth and John Dickens, at No.1 Mile End Terrace, Landport, ...
Originally built to hold prisoners being tried by the Marshalsea Court an...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Marshalsea 3 - stone - Little Dorrit
The plaque refers to 'wall mounted artworks' but we did not see any on our vi...
This is our first push-me-pull-you plaque. It is in Angel Alley at the gates...
John Dickens, the father of Charles Dickens, was imprisoned here for debt fro...
The wall in the photo is the remains of the front wall of the hospital building. Compare it with the picture of that building - you can ...
The western entrance is this porch but we can find no details of how it was improved in 1877, nor can we find anything about the architec...
Greater London Council Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953, poet, lived here.
Our transcription of this long inscription was aided by the typed Winter 1978 newsletter of the East London History Society "A Tombstone...
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