JOYCEAN PICS 2009
London and Joyce
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  28 B Campden Grove, Kensington, London W.8
  [CW; U 09.1101, 14.0496, 14.0779] 121 Ebury Street SW1 (George Moore)
  Grosvenor Gardens SW1
  London Victoria Station
  Euston Station near Bloomsbury
  The Palace of Westminster (the Houses of Parliament)
  Madame Tussauds
  [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Sherlock Holmes, 221B Baker Street London NW1
  The Tower of London
  Tower Bridge
  Trafalgar Square
  [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] The Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
CONTENTS 2009
   1  Glasgow IASIL 2009@University of Glasgow
   2  Glasgow (Glaschu) and Joyce
   3  Glasgow (Glaschu): miscellanea
   4  Edinburgh (Dun Eideann)
   5  New Lanark, South Lanarkshire
   6  Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park (Pairc Naiseanta Loch Laomainn is nan Troisichean)
   7  Oban (An t-Oban)
   8  Kilchurn Castle, Argyll and Bute
   9  Inveraray Castle (Caisteal Inbhir Aora), Argyll and Bute
  10  Glen Coe (Gleann Comhann), the Central Highlands
  11  Loch Lochy (Loch Lochaidh) and Loch Oich (Loch Omhaich) of the Caledonian Canal
  12  Loch Ness (Loch Nis) of the Caledonian Canal
  13  Inverness (Inbhir Nis)
  14  Dublin (Baile Atha Cliath) and Joyce
  15  Dublin (Baile Atha Cliath): miscellanea
  16  Moneygall (Muine Gall), County Offaly
  17  Limerick (Luimneach)
  18  The Burren (Boireann), County Clare
  19  Doolin (Dulainn), County Clare
  20  The Cliffs of Moher (Aillte an Mhothair), County Clare
  21  Connemara (Conamara)
  22  London and Joyce
  23  London: miscellanea
  24  Bognor Regis, West Sussex
  25  Sidlesham, West Sussex
  26  Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

London and Joyce

7-10 August 2009

  
  
  
  
  London, located between Ireland and the Continent, is a very influential city for Joyce as well as Dublin, Paris, Trieste and Zurich.  Joyce, who had a British passport, visited this city many times.  On December 1, 1902 Joyce left Dublin for Paris to study medicine.  On the way to Paris he stopped in London where he could meet William Butler Yeats.  Yeats, informed beforehand of his arrival time, came to Euston Station at six in the morning to meet him.  The older poet spent the whole day with Joyce, buying him breakfast, lunch and dinner, paying for cabs, and took him to Arthur Symons and to the people he thought would be most useful.  Needless to say Joyce was very grateful.  In late September 1904 Joyce tried to find a job in London for Nora.
  In middle April 1931 Joyce and Nora went to London to marry following the British law.  First they stayed for a little over a month in the Hotel Belgravia in Grosvenor Gardens, S.W.1, then moved at the beginning of May to a flat at 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, W.8, where they planned to stay indefinitely (although they stayed there until September and moved back to Paris).  He wrote to Miss Harriet Shaw Weaver, "In reading a book on a legal position of women, I find that under Scots law I am legally married, and my daughter-in-law tells me, the same holds good in the United States.  When I lived in Ireland I always believed that marriage by habit and repute was recognized in the United Kingdom.... I wonder what is Irish law on the point or where did I get the idea?...."  He chose his father's birthday, July 4, as the wedding day, perhaps remembering that John Joyce (who died in Dublin on December 29, 1931) had been grieved by his elopement.   During the 1931 stay they, accompanied by Nora's sister Kathleen, went to the Tower of London, Madame Tussaud's Waxworks, Windsor Forest, Stonehenge, and to places associated with Shakespeare, etc. (Cf. Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, (rev.1982), pp.111, 637 & 639)
  
  

 
  For Joyce, Dublin can bear comparison with London:
  
  "And what a city Dublin is!" he continued.  "I wonder if there is another like it.  Everybody has time to hail a friend and ' start a conversation about a third party, Pat, Barney or Tim.'  Have you seen Barney lately?  Is he still off the drink?'  'Ay, sure he is.  I was with him last night and he drank nothing but claret.'  I suppose you don't get that gossipy, leisurely life in London?"  
  "No," I said."  But then London isn't a city.  It is a wilderness of bricks and mortar and the law of the wilderness prevails.  All Londoners say, 'I keep myself to myself.'  The malicious friendly sort of town can't exist with seven million people in it."
  But it is not by way of description that Dublin is created in Ulysses.  There is a wealth of delicate pictorial evocation in Dubliners, but there is little or none in Ulysses.  Streets are named but never described.  Houses and interiors are shown us, but as if we entered them as familiars, not as strangers come to take stock of the occupants and inventory their furniture.  Bridges over the Liffey are crossed and recrossed, named and that is all.  We go into eating-houses and drinking bars as if the town were our own and these our customary ports of call.  Libraries, churches, courthouses, the municipal government, professional associations function before us without explanations or introductions.  The people are being born, dying, eating and drinking, making love, betting, boozing, worshipping, getting married and burying their dead.  Politics, especially the politics of Irish nationalism, and economic questions, such' as the cattle trade with England, are being fiercely debated.  The history of Dublin and of the Irish nation is served up piping hot in the speech of living patriots.  Young men are struggling for bread and a place in the sun; prudent middle age is doing what it can to keep what it has; and the old are scheming for a little peace and quietness away from the hungry generations.  Women of all ages aid, thwart, distract, criticise and comfort them in all their enterprises.  Sex, in all its normal manifestations, is ever present together with the solidarities and disputes of families.  There is much in Ulysses that, in the normal acceptation of the word, is obscene, but very little that is perverse.  The cultural life of Dublin is revealed to us in discussions on music and literature.  It is a thirsty day and any moment of it seems to be a suitable moment for having a drink.  At times the reader so acutely realises the existence of Dublin that Dublin's sons and daughters, even including Bloom and Stephen, become by comparison unimportant. (Frank Budgen, James Joyce and the Making of "Ulysses," and Other Writings (1972), pp.69-70)
  
  There are, however, similarities, striking enough, between the Londoner and the Dubliner.  Each aims at summing up the elements of human experience, at presenting a picture of the world as complete, having in view its changes of time and substance the evolution of things.  To this end they both work with words as symbols, and create a mythology to represent the elemental shapes and forces of the universe.  Each has a native town with its surroundings which supplies a mystical place wherein the universal legend may be enacted.   In the case of Blake that place is London; in that of Joyce, Dublin.
  Both Blake and Joyce have a passion for locality, but Joyce has with that passion a painter's love of the natural scene in colour, tone, space, whereas Blake is graphically abstract and delimiting.  The grace, the glitter, the elegance of the Liffey landscscape shine out in Work in Progress, but no line in Jerusalem creates for us a vision of London's mighty tidal drudge.   They seem nearest to each other in their love of place names. (Frank Budgen, James Joyce and the Making of "Ulysses," and Other Writings (1972), pp.318-19)
  
  

 
The Chronology of James Joyce's Great Britain Addresses
Summer 1894
Trip to Glasgow
May 1900
Trip to London
1 - 3 December 1902
En route Dublin - London - Paris
18 - 22 January 1903
London
8 - 11 October 1904
En route Dublin - London - Paris - Zurich
9 - 13 September 1909
En route Dublin - London - Trieste
11 - 15 September 1912
En route Dublin - London - Flushing - Munich - Trieste
17 August - 18 September 1922
Euston Hotel, London
15 - 29 June 1923
Belgrave Hotel, London
29 June - 15 August 1923
Alexandra House, Clarence Road, Bognor
September - 5 October 1924
Euston Hotel, London
April 1927
Euston Hotel, London
17 August - 21 September 1929
Euston Hotel, London
July - August 1930
London
July 1930
Grand Hotel, Llandudno, Wales
3 August 1930
Randolph Hotel, Oxford
23 April - 10 May 1931
Hotel Belgravia, Grosvenor Gardens, London
10 May - 10 September 1931
28B Campden Grove, Kensington, London, W.8
18 July 1931
Grand Hotel, Llandudno, Wales
9 - 20 August 1931
Lord Warden Hotel, Dover
31 August 1931
Salisbury
17 September 1931
Lord Warden Hotel, Dover


  
  Reference: Richard Ellmann ed.  Letters of James Joyce, Volume II  New York: The Viking Press, 1966.

  (*See also the "Bognor Regis, West Sussex" page of "Joycean Pics 2009.")




 
  Thus there are numerous descriptions about London in Joyce's works:
  
Epiphanies

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  [London: in a house at Kennington]
  
  Eva Leslie -- Yes, Maudie Leslie's my sister
  an' Fred Leslie's my brother -- yev 'eard of
  Fred Leslie? .... (musing) ... O, 'e's a whoite-arsed
  bugger ... 'E's awoy at present .......
  (later)
  I told you someun went with me ten toimes
  one noight .... That's Fred -- my own brother
  Fred .... (musing) ... 'E is 'andsome ... O I
  do love Fred ....
  
  
Dubliners

  Little Chandler's thoughts ever since lunch-time had been of his meeting with Gallaher, of Gallaher's invitation, and of the great city London where Gallaher lived. ("A Little Cloud," 008-10; Dubliners, Gabler & Hettche 1991)
  
  He turned to the right towards Capel Street.  Ignatius Gallaher on the London Press!  Who would have thought it possible eight years before? ("A Little Cloud," 072-73; Dubliners, Gabler & Hettche 1991)
  
  Every step brought him nearer to London, farther from his own sober inartistic life.  A light began to tremble on the horizon of his mind.  He was not so old - thirty-two. ("A Little Cloud," 108-10; eds. Gabler & Hettche 1991)
  
`Then it is an immoral city,' said Little Chandler, with timid insistence - `I mean, compared with London or Dublin?'

`London!' said Ignatius Gallaher.  `It's six of one and half a dozen of the other.  You ask Hogan, my boy.  I showed him a bit about London when he was over there.  He'd open your eye... I say, Tommy, don't make punch of that whisky: liquor up.' ("A Little Cloud," 240-45; eds. Gabler & Hettche 1991)
  
  He caught himself up at the question and glanced nervously round the room.  He found something mean in the pretty furniture which he had bought for his house on the hire system.  Annie had chosen it herself and it reminded him of her.  It too was prim and pretty.  A dull resentment against his life awoke within him.  Could he not escape from his little house?  Was it too late for him to try to live bravely like Gallaher?  Could he go to London?  There was the furniture still to be paid for.  If he could only write a book and get it published, that might open the way for him. ("A Little Cloud," 432-41; eds. Gabler & Hettche 1991)
  
  

Stephen Hero

--The life of a great city like London seems to you better? (XVII, p.55)
  
--O, the world of professors whom he helps to feed . . .
--Competent critics, said the President severely, men of the highest culture.  And even the public themselves can appreciate him.  I have read, I think, in some . . . a newspaper, I think it was . . . that Irving, the great actor, Henry Irving produced one of his plays in London and that the London public flocked to see it.
--From curiosity.  The London public will flock to see anything new or strange.  If Irving were to give an imitation of a hard-boiled egg they would flock to see it. (XIX, p.97)
  
... The barmaid ran screaming for the proprietor, the medical student was soothed and restrained by considerate friends and the offender was escorted out by Cranly and Stephen and a few others.  At first he lamented that his new cuffs were stained with porter and expressed a great desire to go back and fight it out but, dissuaded by Cranly, he began to tell Stephen in an indistinct undertone that he had got the highest marks in Pure Mathematics ever given in the degree examination.  He advised Stephen to go to London to write for the papers and said he could put him in the right way to get on. (XXV, p.208)
  
  
Ulysses

09.0147.  --What is a ghost? Stephen said with tingling energy.  One who has faded
09.0148.  into impalpability through death, through absence, through change of
09.0149.  manners.  Elizabethan London lay as far from Stratford as corrupt Paris
09.0150.  lies from virgin Dublin.  Who is the ghost from limbo patrum, returning to
09.0151.  the world that has forgotten him?  Who is King Hamlet?
  
  
15.0169.      BLOOM
  
15.0170.  Aurora borealis or a steel foundry?  Ah, the brigade, of course.  South side
15.0171.  anyhow.  Big blaze.  Might be his house.  Beggar's bush.  We're safe.  (he
15.0172.  hums cheerfully) London's burning, London's burning!  On fire, on fire!
15.0173.  (he catches sight of the navvy lurching through the crowd at the farther
15.0174.  side of Talbot street) I'll miss him.  Run.  Quick.  Better cross here.
  
  
17.0534.  Bloom, only born male transubstantial heir of Rudolf Virag (subsequently
17.0535.  Rudolph Bloom) of Szombathely, Vienna, Budapest, Milan, London and
17.0536.  Dublin and of Ellen Higgins, second daughter of Julius Higgins (born
17.0537.  Karoly) and Fanny Higgins (born Hegarty).  Stephen, eldest surviving male
17.0538.  consubstantial heir of Simon Dedalus of Cork and Dublin and of Mary,
17.0539.  daughter of Richard and Christina Goulding (born Grier). (cf. U 17.1906-15)
  
  
Finnegans Wake

253.09.  ever for a silly old Sol, healthytobedder and latewiser.  Nor that the
253.10.  turtling of a London's alderman is ladled out by the waggerful to
253.11.  the regionals of pigmyland.  His part should say in honour bound:


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28 B Campden Grove W.8, Kensington
  
  28 B Campden Grove, Kensington, London, W.8 where James and Nora Joyce lived between 10 May - 10 September 1931 in order to marry legally in Britain.
  
  
  Meanwhile, Joyce had quitted his flat in the Square Robiac, and in the course of his endless peregrinations had gone to London to arrange his remarriage.  I visited him there and found him living at this time in a dark and uncomfortable flat in Cam[p]den Grove in Kensington, a place which he nicknamed 'Cam[p]den Grave.'  But after a few months he left it to return to Paris to a place in the Avenue St. Philibert.  But what with his increasing troubles now added to by the news of his father's death in Dublin, which he took very badly, the stage now began to darken for him so that he composed a new tragic but not unhumorous calendar of the weekdays starting with -- 'Moansday, Tearsday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.'
  (Quoted from Arthur Power, The Joyce We Knew: Memoirs of Joyce (Ed. Ulick O'Connor, The Mercier Press, 1967/Dingle, Co. Kerry, Brandon, 2004), p.108)
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(Friday 7 August) Plaque of Campden Grove, Kensington, London, W.8
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(Friday 7 August) Plaque of Campden Grove, Kensington, London, W.8
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(Friday 7 August) Campden Grove, Kensington, London, W.8
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(Friday 7 August) Campden Grove, Kensington, London, W.8
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(Friday 7 August) English Heritage Plaque saying "JAMES JOYCE 1882 - 1941 Author lived here in 1931."  Campden Grove, Kensington, London, W.8.
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(Friday 7 August) 28B Campden Grove, Kensington, London, W.8
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(Friday 7 August) 28B Campden Grove, Kensington, London, W.8
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(Friday 7 August) 28B Campden Grove, Kensington, London, W.8
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(Friday 7 August) 28B Campden Grove, Kensington, London, W.8
  
  
  
121 Ebury Street SW1
  
  [CW; U 09.1101, 14.0496, 14.0779] 121 Ebury Street SW1, City of Westminster where George Moore (1852-1933) lived and died here.

  George Augustus Moore (24 February 1852 - 21 January 1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist.  Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived in Moore Hall, near Lough Carra, County Mayo.  He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There, he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day.  As a naturalistic writer, he was amongst the first English-language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists, and was particularly influenced by the works of Emile Zola.  His writings influenced James Joyce, according to the literary critic and biographer Richard Ellmann, and, although Moore's work is sometimes seen as outside the mainstream of both Irish and British literature, he is as often regarded as the first great modern Irish novelist.
  Moore published two books of prose fiction set in Ireland between 1901 and 1911 when he returned to Ireland; a second book of short stories, The Untilled Field (1903) and a novel, The Lake (1905).  The Untilled Field deal with themes of clerical interference in the daily lives of the Irish peasantry, and of the issue of emigration.  The stories were originally written for translation into Irish, in order to serve as models for other writers working in the language.  Three of the translations were published in the New Ireland Review, but publication was then paused due to a perceived anti-clerical sentiment. In 1902 the entire collection was translated by Tadhg O Donnchadha and Padraig O Suilleabhain, and published in a parallel-text edition by the Gaelic League as An-tUr-Ghort.  Moore later revised the texts for the English edition.  These stories were influenced by Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches, a book recommended to Moore by W.K. Magee.  Magee was a sub-librarian of the National Library of Ireland, and had earlier suggested that Moore "was best suited to become Ireland's Turgenev."  The tales are recognised by some as representing the birth of the Irish short story as a literary genre.  They can further be viewed as forerunners of Joyce's Dubliners collection, which is concerned with similarly quotidian themes, although in an urban setting.  In 1903, following a disagreement with his brother Maurice over the religious upbringing of his nephews, Moore declared himself to be Protestant. His conversion was announced in a letter to the Irish Times newspaper.  Moore remained in Dublin until 1911.  In 1914, he published a gossipy, three-volume memoir of his time there under the collective title Hail and Farewell, which entertained its readers but infuriated former friends.  Moore himself said of these memoirs, "Dublin is now divided into two sets; one half is afraid it will be in the book, and the other is afraid that it won't."
  Moore returned to London, where, with the exception of frequent trips to France, he was to spend the rest of his life.  In 1913, he travelled to Jerusalem to research for his next novel The Brook Kerith (1916).  This book saw Moore once again embroiled in controversy, as it was based on the supposition that a non-divine Christ did not die on the cross but instead was nursed back to health.  In The Brook Kerith, Jesus eventually travelled to India to find wisdom.   Other books from this period include a further collection of short-stories called A Storyteller's Holiday (1918), a collection of essays called Conversations in Ebury Street (1924) and a play,  The Making of an Immortal (1927).  Moore also spent considerable time revising and preparing his earlier writings for a uniform edition.  Partly due to Maurice Moore's pro-treaty activity, Moore Hall was burnt by anti-treaty forces in 1923, during the final months of the Irish Civil War.  Moore eventually received compensation of 7,000 from the government of the Irish Free State.  By this time George and Maurice had become estranged, mainly because of an unflattering portrait of the latter which appeared in Hail and Farewell.  Tension also arose as a result of Maurice's active support of the Roman Catholic Church, to whom he frequently made donations from estate funds.  Moore later sold a large part of the estate to the Irish Land Commission for 25,000.  Moore was friendly with many members of the expatriate artistic communities in London and Paris, and conducted a long-lasting affair with Lady Maud Cunard.  Moore took a special interest in the education of Maud's daughter, the well-known publisher and art patron, Nancy Cunard, and it has been suggested that Moore, rather than Maud's husband, Sir Bache Cunard, was Nancy's father.  Gertrude Stein mentions Moore in her The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), describing him as 'a very prosperous Mellon's Food baby'.
  Moore's last novel, Aphroditis in Aulis, was published in 1930.  He contracted uraemia and died at his home at Ebury Street in the London district of Pimlico.  When he died, he left a fortune of ?80,000, none of which was left to his brother.  He was cremated in London and an urn containing his ashes was interred on Castle Island in Lough Carra in view of the ruins of Moore Hall.  (Extracted from the site of "Wikipedia")
  
  
  There are some descriptions about George Moore in Joyce's works:
  
Critical Writings

7. "The Day of the Rabblement" (1901)

  
    Meanwhile, what of the artists?  It is equally unsafe at present to say of Mr. Yeats that he has or has not genius.  In aim and form The Wind among the Reeds is poetry of the highest order, and The Adoration of the Magi (a story which one of the great Russians might have written) shows what Mr. Yeats can do when he breaks with the half-gods.  But an aesthete has a floating will, and Mr. Yeats's treacherous instinct of adaptability must be blamed for his recent association with a platform from which even self-respect should have urged him to refrain.  Mr. Martyn and Mr. Moore are not writers of much originality.  Mr. Martyn, disabled as he is by an incorrigible style, has none of the fierce, hysterical power of Strindberg, whom he suggests at times; and with him one is conscious of a lack of breadth and distinction which outweighs the nobility of certain passages. Mr. Moore, however, has wonderful mimetic ability, and some years ago his books might have entitled him to the place of honour among English novelists. But though Vain Fortune (perhaps one should add some of Esther Waters) is fine, original work, Mr. Moore is really struggling in the backwash of that tide which has advanced from Flaubert through Jakobsen to D'Annunzio: for two entire eras lie between Madame Bovary and Il Fuoco.It is plain from Celibates and the later novels that Mr. Moore is beginning to draw upon his literary account, and the quest of a new impulse may explain his recent startling conversion. Converts are in the movement now, and Mr. Moore and his island have been fitly admired. But however frankly Mr. Moore may misquote Pater and Turgenieff to defend himself, his new impulse has no kind of relation to the future of art.  (CW p.71)
  
  
8. "James Clarence Mangan"
(Published in St. Stephen, v.1, no. 6 (May 1902)

  
    His writings, which have never been collected and which are unknown, except for two American editions of selected poems and some pages of prose, published by Duffy, show no order and sometimes very little thought.  Many of his essays are pretty fooling when read once, but one cannot but discern some fierce energy beneath the banter, which follows up the phrases with no good intent, and there is a likeness between the desperate writer, himself the victim of too dexterous torture, and the contorted writing.  Mangan, it must be remembered, wrote with no native literary tradition to guide him, and for a public which cared for matters of the day, and for poetry only so far as it might illustrate these.  He could not often revise what he wrote, and he has often striven with Moore and Walsh on their own ground.  But the best of what he has written makes its appeal surely, because it was conceived by the imagination which he called, I think, the mother of things, whose dream are we, who imageth us to herself, and to ourselves, and imageth herself in us--the power before whose breath the mind in creation is (to use Shelley's image) as a fading coal.  Though even in the best of Mangan the presence of alien emotions is sometimes felt the presence of an imaginative personality reflecting the light of imaginative beauty is more vividly felt.  (CW p.78)
  
  
35. "Ireland, Island of Saints and Sages" (1901)
(Translated from the 1907 Italian lecture)

  
    Even today, despite her heavy obstacles, Ireland is making her contribution to English art and thought.  That the Irish are really the unbalanced, helpless idiots about whom we read in the lead articles of the Standard and the Morning Post is denied by the names of the three greatest translators in English literature -- FitzGerald, translator of the Rubaiyat of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam, Burton, translator of the Arabian masterpieces, and Cary, the classic translator of the Divine Comedy,  It is also denied by the names of other Irishmen -- Arthur Sullivan, the dean of modern English music, Edward O'Connor, founder of Chartism, the novelist George Moore, an intellectual oasis in the Sahara of the false spiritualistic, Messianic, and detective writings whose name is legion in England, by the names of two Dubliners, the paradoxical and iconoclastic writer of comedy, George Bernard Shaw, and the too well known Oscar Wilde, son of a revolutionary poetess .  (CW p.171)
  
  
Ulysses

  
09.1100.    Buck Mulligan flaunted his slip and panama.
09.1101.  --Monsieur Moore, he said, lecturer on French letters to the youth of
09.1102.  Ireland.  I'll be there. Come, Kinch, the bards must drink.  Can you walk
09.1103.  straight?

14.0495.  lands) Mal.  Mulligan a gentleman's gentleman that had but come from Mr
14.0496.  Moore's the writer's (that was a papish but is now, folk say, a good
14.0497.  Williamite) chanced against Alec. Bannon in a cut bob (which are now in
14.0498.  with dance cloaks of Kendal green) that was new got to town from
14.0499.  Mullingar with the stage where his coz and Mal M's brother will stay a
14.0500.  month yet till Saint Swithin and asks what in the earth he does there, he
14.0501.  bound home and he to Andrew Horne's being stayed for to crush a cup of
14.0502.  wine, so he said, but would tell him of a skittish heifer, big of her age and
14.0503.  beef to the heel, and all this while poured with rain and so both together on
14.0504.  to Horne's.  There Leop. Bloom of Crawford's journal sitting snug with a

14.0779.  my friend Monsieur Moore, that most accomplished traveller (I have just
14.0780.  cracked a half bottle avec lui in a circle of the best wits of the town),
14.0781.  is my authority that in Cape Horn, ventre biche, they have a rain that will wet
14.0782.  through any, even the stoutest cloak.  A drenching of that violence, he tells
  
  
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(Friday 7 August) [CW; U 09.1101, 14.0496, 14.0779] LCC Plaque saying "GEORGE MOORE (1852 - 1933) AUTHOR Lived and died here," 121 Ebury Street SW1
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(Friday 7 August) [CW; U 09.1101, 14.0496, 14.0779] George Moore's last home, 121 Ebury Street SW1
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(Friday 7 August) [CW; U 09.1101, 14.0496, 14.0779] George Moore's last home, 121 Ebury Street SW1
  
  
  
Grosvenor Gardens SW1
  
  Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1.  James Joyce stayed at "Hotel Belgravia" in Grosvenor Gardens between 3 April - 10 May 1931.  However, the hotel seems to have been already demolished.  At least it was difficult for me to identify where it was.
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(Friday 7 August) Plaque of Grosvenor Gardens SW1, City of Westminster
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(Friday 7 August) Plaque of Grosvenor Gardens SW1, City of Westminster
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(Friday 7 August) Grosvenor Gardens SW1, City of Westminster
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(Friday 7 August) Grosvenor Gardens SW1, City of Westminster
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(Friday 7 August) Grosvenor Gardens SW1, City of Westminster
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(Friday 7 August) Grosvenor Gardens SW1, City of Westminster
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(Friday 7 August) Grosvenor Gardens SW1, City of Westminster
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(Friday 7 August) Grosvenor Gardens SW1, City of Westminster
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(Friday 7 August) Grosvenor Gardens SW1, City of Westminster
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(Friday 7 August) Grosvenor Gardens House, 35-37 Grosvenor Gardens SW1, City of Westminster
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(Friday 7 August) Plaque of Grosvenor Gardens SW1, City of Westminster
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(Friday 7 August) Grosvenor Gardens SW1, City of Westminster
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(Friday 7 August) Grosvenor Gardens SW1, City of Westminster
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(Friday 7 August) Grosvenor Gardens SW1, City of Westminster
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(Friday 7 August) Grosvenor Gardens SW1, City of Westminster
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(Friday 7 August) Grosvenor Gardens SW1, City of Westminster
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(Friday 7 August) Grosvenor Gardens SW1, City of Westminster
  
  
  
London Victoria Station
  
  Victoria station, also known as London Victoria, is a major London Underground, National Rail and coach station in the City of Westminster.  It is the second busiest railway terminus in London (and the UK) after Waterloo.  It is in Travelcard Zone 1.  It is named after the British monarch Queen Victoria.  (Referred to the site of "Wikipedia")
  London Victoria Station is one of the London terminal railway stations James Joyce frequently used.
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(Friday 7 August) London Victoria Station
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(Friday 7 August) London Victoria Station
  
  
  
Euston Station
  
  Euston Station near Bloomsbury.
  Euston station, also known as London Euston, is a major railway station to the north of central London in the London Borough of Camden and is the sixth busiest rail terminal in London (by entries and exits).  It is one of 18 British railway stations managed by Network Rail, and is the southern terminus of the West Coast Main Line.  Euston is the main rail gateway from London to the West Midlands, the North West, North Wales and Scotland.  (Referred to the site of "Wikipedia") It is connected to Euston tube station and near Euston Square tube station of the London Underground. These stations are in Travelcard Zone 1.
  The famous anecdote tells that when Joyce left Dublin for Paris in 1902 W.B. Yeats kindly met the young exile early in the morning in Euston station and later gave him some help.
  Since then Joyce seems to have stopped at this station to stay at the "Euston Hotel, London."  He came here 17 August - 18 September 1922, September - 5 October 1924, April 1927 and 17 August - 21 September 1929.  However, it is again very difficult to identify where Joyce stayed as numerous hotels run around the station now.
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(Friday 7 August) Euston Station
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(Friday 7 August) Euston Station
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(Friday 7 August) Statue of Robert Stephenson (1803-1859), who built railroads, locomotives, and bridges, near Euston Station.  His father George Stephenson (1781-1848) was a British railway pioneer who built a practical steam locomotive (1814) and the first passenger railway (1825).
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(Friday 7 August) Some war memorial monument near Euston Station
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(Friday 7 August) Near Euston Station
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(Friday 7 August) Near Euston Station
  
  
  
Houses of Parliament
  
  The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament, is the seat of the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom - the House of Lords and the House of Commons.  The Palace lies on the north bank of the River Thames in the London borough of the City of Westminster, close to the government buildings of Whitehall.
  The palace contains around 1,100 rooms, 100 staircases and 5 kilometers (3 mi) of corridors.  Although the building mainly dates from the 19th century, remaining elements of the original historic buildings include Westminster Hall, used today for major public ceremonial events such as lyings in state, and the Jewel Tower.  Control of the Palace of Westminster and its precincts was for centuries exercised by the Queen's representative, the Lord Great Chamberlain.  By agreement with the Crown, control passed to the two Houses in 1965.  Certain ceremonial rooms continue to be controlled by the Lord Great Chamberlain.
  After a fire in 1834, the present Houses of Parliament were built over the next 30 years.  They were the work of the architect Sir Charles Barry (1795 - 1860) and his assistant Augustus Welby Pugin (1812 1852).  The design incorporated Westminster Hall and the remains of St Stephen's Chapel.  (Quoted from the site of "Wikipedia")
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(Saturday 8 August) Houses of Parliament over River Thames
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(Saturday 8 August) Houses of Parliament over River Thames
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(Saturday 8 August) Houses of Parliament over River Thames
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(Saturday 8 August) Houses of Parliament over Westminster Bridge
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(Saturday 8 August) Houses of Parliament over Westminster Bridge
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(Saturday 8 August) Big Ben of the Houses of Parliament.
  Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north-eastern end of the Palace of Westminster in London, and is often extended to refer to the clock or the clock tower as well.  Big Ben is the largest four-faced chiming clock and the third-tallest free-standing clock tower in the world.  It celebrated its 150th anniversary in May 2009 (the clock itself first ticking on 31 May), during which celebratory events took place.  The nearest London Underground station is Westminster on the Circle, District and Jubilee lines.  (Extracted from the site of "Wikipedia")
  
  
  Cf. Ben Dollard is called Big Ben in Ulysses because he has a base barreltone and legs like barrels:
  
Ulysses

  
08.0117.  Still, I don't know.  She used to say Ben Dollard had a base barreltone
08.0118.  voice.  He has legs like barrels and you'd think he was singing into a barrel.
08.0119.  Now, isn't that wit.  They used to call him big Ben.  Not half as witty as
08.0120.  calling him base barreltone.  Appetite like an albatross.  Get outside of a
08.0121.  baron of beef.  Powerful man he was at stowing away number one Bass.
08.0122.  Barrel of Bass. See?  It all works out.
  
  (See U 08.0839, 11.0800, 11.0959, 11.1070, 11.1154, 11.1272 and 15.2614.)
  
  
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(Saturday 8 August) Big Ben of the Houses of Parliament
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(Saturday 8 August) Big Ben of the Houses of Parliament
  
  
  
Madame Tussauds
  
  Madame Tussauds, Marylebone Road, NW1 5LR.
  Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with branches in a number of major cities.  It was set up by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud.  It was formerly spelt "Madame Tussaud's," but the apostrophe is no longer used.  Marie Tussaud, born Anna Maria Grosholtz (1761-1850) was born in Strasbourg, France.  Tussaud created her first wax figure, of Voltaire, in 1777.  Other famous people she modelled at that time include Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin.  During the French Revolution she modelled many prominent victims.
  In 1795, she married Francois Tussaud.  They had two children, Joseph and Francois.  In 1802, Marie Tussaud went to London together with Joseph, then four years old, her other son staying behind.  As a result of the Napoleonic Wars, she was unable to return to France, so she traveled with her collection throughout Great Britain and Ireland.  In 1821 or 1822, her other son, Francois, joined her.  In 1835, she established her first permanent exhibition in Baker Street, on the "Baker Street Bazaar."  In 1838, she wrote her memoirs.  In 1842, she made a self-portrait which is now on display at the entrance of her museum. Some of the sculptures done by Tussaud herself still exist.  She died in her sleep in London on 16 April 1850.  She was eighty-eight years old.  There is a memorial tablet to Madame Marie Tussaud on the right side of the nave of St. Mary's, Cadogan Street, London.
  Madame Tussaud's wax museum has now grown to become one of the major tourist attractions in London, and has expanded with branches in Amsterdam, Hong Kong (Victoria Peak), Las Vegas, Shanghai, Berlin, Washington D.C., New York City, and Hollywood.  The current owner is Merlin Entertainments Group, a company owned by Blackstone Investment Group LP.  (Cited from the site of "Wikipedia")
  
  During the 1931 stay James and Nora Joyce came here, accompanied by Nora's sister Kathleen.
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(Sunday 9 August) Madame Tussaud's, Marylebone Road, NW1 5LR
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(Sunday 9 August) Madame Tussaud's, Marylebone Road, NW1 5LR
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(Sunday 9 August) Madame Tussaud's, Marylebone Road, NW1 5LR
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(Sunday 9 August) Madame Tussaud's, Marylebone Road, NW1 5LR
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(Sunday 9 August) Madame Tussaud's, Marylebone Road, NW1 5LR
  
  
  
Sherlock Holmes, 221B Baker Street London NW1
  
  [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] The Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE.
  Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887.  He is the creation of British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930).  A brilliant London-based "consulting detective,"  Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and inference to solve difficult cases.
  The famous Scottish writer Conan Doyle (born 22 May, 1859, Edinburgh, Scotland - died 7 July, 1930, Crowborough, Sussex, England) wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that feature Holmes.  The first two stories (short novels) appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890, respectively.  The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialised novels appeared until 1927.  The stories cover a period from around 1875 up to 1907, with a final case in 1914.
  All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson, two are narrated by Holmes himself and two others are written in the third person. In two stories ("The Musgrave Ritual" and "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott"), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, whereas Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story.
  Conan Doyle said that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.  Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations.  Michael Harrison argued in a 1971 article in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine that the character was inspired by Wendell Scherer, a "consulting detective" in a murder case that allegedly received a great deal of newspaper attention in England in 1882.  (Quoted from the site of "Wikipedia")
  
  
  There are some descriptions about Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle in Joyce's works:
  
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15.1841.  (Bloom walks on a net, covers his left eye with his left ear, passes
15.1842.  through several walls, climbs Nelson's Pillar, hangs from the top
15.1843.  ledge by his eyelids, eats twelve dozen oysters (shells included),
15.1844.  heals several sufferers from king's evil, contracts his face so as to
15.1845.  resemble many historical personages, Lord Beaconsfield, Lord
15.1846.  Byron, Wat Tyler, Moses of Egypt, Moses Maimonides, Moses
15.1847.  Mendelssohn, Henry Irving, Rip van Winkle, Kossuth, Jean Jacques
15.1848.  Rousseau, Baron Leopold Rothschild, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock
15.1849.  Holmes, Pasteur, turns each foot simultaneously in different
15.1850.  directions, bids the tide turn back, eclipses the sun by extending his
15.1851.  little finger.)
  
16.0830.    He had been meantime taking stock of the individual in front of him
16.0831.  and Sherlockholmesing him up ever since he clapped eyes on him.  Though
16.0832.  a wellpreserved man of no little stamina, if a trifle prone to baldness, there
16.0833.  was something spurious in the cut of his jib that suggested a jail delivery
16.0834.  and it required no violent stretch of imagination to associate such a
16.0835.  weirdlooking specimen with the oakum and treadmill fraternity.  He might
16.0836.  even have done for his man supposing it was his own case he told, as people
16.0837.  often did about others, namely, that he killed him himself and had served
16.0838.  his four or five goodlooking years in durance vile to say nothing of the
16.0839.  Antonio personage (no relation to the dramatic personage of identical name
16.0840.  who sprang from the pen of our national poet) who expiated his crimes in
  
  
17.1361.  Catalogue these books [of LB's two bookshelves].
  
17.1375.  The Stark-Munro Letters* by A. Conan Doyle, property of the City of
17.1376.  Dublin Public Library, 106 Capel street, lent 21 May (Whitsun Eve)
17.1377.  1904, due 4 June 1904, 13 days overdue (black cloth binding, bearing
17.1378.  white letternumber ticket).
  
  *As you know, The Stark-Munro Letters (1886) is a non-Holmes book: it is a semi-autobiographical novel, which reflects Doyle's medical education and experiences as well as The Firm of Girdlestone (1890).
  
  
Finnegans Wake

  
276.60 (*F3*):  2My goldfashioned bother near drave me roven mad and I dyeing to
276.61 (*F4*):  keep my linefree face like readymaid maryangs for jollycomes smashing
276.62 (*F5*):  Holmes.
  
  
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Statue of Sherlock Holmes in Marylebone Road
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Statue of Sherlock Holmes in Marylebone Road
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Plaque of Baker Street NW1, City of Westminster
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] The Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE.
  In Authur Conan Doyle's serial fictions, Sherlock holmes and Doctor Watson lived at 221B Baker Street from about 1881 - 1904.  Apartment 221B was on the first floor of a lodging house, the landlady of which was a Mrs. Hudson.  There were 17 steps from the ground floor hallway to the first floor study which Holmes and Watson shared.  Holmes' bedroom was at the rear adjoining the study.
  The Museum building was registered as a lodging house from 1860 - 1934 and therefore represents an authentic lodging house of the period.  Ther house was built in 1815 and is listed Grade 2 of special architectural and historical interest by Her Majesty's Government.  (Quoted from the official pamphlet)
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] The Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] The Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] The Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Dr. Watson is welcoming guests in the first floor study in the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Dr. Watson is welcoming guests in the first floor study in the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Dr. Watson is welcoming guests in the first floor study in the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Dr. Watson is welcoming guests in the first floor study in the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Sherlock Holmes' bedroom at the rear, adjoining the first-floor study of the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Sherlock Holmes' bedroom at the rear, adjoining the first-floor study of the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Sherlock Holmes' bedroom at the rear, adjoining the first-floor study of the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Doctor Watson's bedroom on the second floor of the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Doctor Watson's bedroom on the second floor of the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Bust of Sherlock Holmes in Mrs. Hudson's room of the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Figure 1 (Page Boy), the young house servant and errand boy in the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Figure 18 (Professor Moriarty, arch enemy of Holmes, destined to meet his end in "The Final Problem") and Figures 3 & 4 (The blackmailer, Charles Augustus Milverton and his surprise assailand: Aristocratic lady in black veil kills him in revenge) in the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Figure 18 (Professor Moriarty, arch enemy of Holmes, destined to meet his end in "The Final Problem") and Figures 3 & 4 (The blackmailer, Charles Augustus Milverton and his surprise assailant: Aristocratic lady in black veil kills him in revenge) in the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Some Figures in the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Some Figures in the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Some Figures in the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Some Figures in the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Bathroom of the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
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(Sunday 9 August) [U 15.1848-49, 16.0831, 17.1375-78; FW 276.F5] Trunks (suitcases) in the attic of the Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221B Baker Street London NW1 6XE
  
  
  
The Tower of London
  
  The Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB.
  Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London (and historically as The Tower), is a historic fortress and scheduled monument in central London, England, on the north bank of the River Thames.  It is located within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and is separated from the eastern edge of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill.  It is the oldest building used by the British government.
  The Tower of London is often identified with the White Tower, the original stark square fortress built by William the Conqueror in 1078.  However, the tower as a whole is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat.  The tower's primary function was a fortress, a royal palace, and a prison (particularly for high status and royal prisoners, such as the Princes in the Tower and the future Queen Elizabeth I).  This last use has led to the phrase "sent to the Tower" (meaning "imprisoned").  It has also served as a place of execution and torture, an armoury, a treasury, a zoo, the Royal Mint, a public records office, an observatory, and since 1303, the home of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.  (Quoted from the site of "Wikipedia")
  
  During the 1931 stay James and Nora Joyce came here, accompanied by Nora's sister Kathleen.
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(Monday 10 August) Welcome post for Japanese tourists, the Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) The Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) The Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) The Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) The Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) The Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) The Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) The Royal Arms of the Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) The Middle Tower of the Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) The Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) A re-created interior in the Medieval Palace of the Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) Edward I's oratory (the little 'chapel over the water") of St Thomas's Tower in the Tower of London, Tower Hill
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(Monday 10 August) The throne of Edward I's oratory (the little 'chapel over the water") of St Thomas's Tower in the Tower of London, Tower Hill
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(Monday 10 August) The stained glasses Edward I's oratory (the little 'chapel over the water") of St Thomas's Tower in the Tower of London, Tower Hill
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(Monday 10 August) The White Tower in The Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) Waterloo Barracks ("Jewel House"), The Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) Big poster of Henry VIII Dressed to Kill, the Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) A guard, the Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) Another guard, the Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) Bloody Tower, the Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) Bloody Tower, the Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) Bloody Tower, the Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
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(Monday 10 August) Bloody Tower, the Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
  
  
  
Tower Bridge
  
  Tower Bridge, SE1 2 UP.
  Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, England, over the River Thames.  It is close to the Tower of London, which gives it its name.  It has become an iconic symbol of London.
  The bridge consists of two towers that are tied together at the upper level by means of two horizontal walkways which are designed to withstand the horizontal forces exerted by the suspended sections of the bridge on the land-ward sides of the towers.  The vertical component of the forces in the suspended sections and the vertical reactions of the two walkways are carried by the two robust towers.  The bascule pivots and operating machinery are housed in the base of each tower. Its present colour dates from 1977 when it was painted red, white and blue for the Queen's Silver Jubilee.  Originally it was painted a chocolate brown colour.
  Tower Bridge is sometimes mistakenly referred to as London Bridge, which is actually the next bridge upstream.  A popular urban legend is that in 1968, Robert McCulloch, the purchaser of the old London Bridge that was later shipped to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, believed that he was in fact buying Tower Bridge.  This was denied by McCulloch himself and has been debunked by Ivan Luckin, the seller of the bridge.  (Quoted form the site of "Wikipedia")
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(Monday 10 August) Tower Bridge over River Thames
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(Monday 10 August) Tower Bridge over River Thames
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(Monday 10 August) Tower Bridge over River Thames
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(Monday 10 August) Tower Bridge over River Thames
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(Monday 10 August) Tower Bridge over River Thames
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(Monday 10 August) Tower Bridge over River Thames
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(Monday 10 August) Tower Bridge over River Thames
  
  
  
Trafalgar Square
  
  Trafalgar Square is a square in central London, England.  With its position in the heart of London, it is a tourist attraction; and one of the most famous squares in the United Kingdom and the world.  At its centre is Nelson's Column, which is guarded by four lion statues at its base.  Statues and sculptures are on display in the square, including a fourth plinth displaying changing pieces of contemporary art, and it is a site of political demonstrations.
  The name commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), a British naval victory of the Napoleonic Wars. The original name was to have been "King William the Fourth's Square", but George Ledwell Taylor suggested the name "Trafalgar Square."  The northern area of the square had been the site of the King's Mews since the time of Edward I, while the southern end was the original Charing Cross, where the Strand from the City met Whitehall, coming north from Westminster.  As the midpoint between these twin cities, Charing Cross is to this day considered the heart of London, from which all distances are measured.
  In the 1820s the Prince Regent engaged the landscape architect John Nash to redevelop the area. Nash cleared the square as part of his Charing Cross Improvement Scheme.  The present architecture of the square is due to Sir Charles Barry and was completed in 1845.  (Quoted from the site of "Wikipedia")
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(Monday 10 August) A general view of Trafalgar Square
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(Monday 10 August) Nelson's Colum, Trafalgar Square.
  The column was built between 1840 and 1843 to commemorate Admiral Horatio Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.  The 5.5 m (18 ft) statue of Nelson stands on top of a 46 m (151 ft) Foggintor granite column.  The statue faces south looking towards the Admiralty, with the Mall on his right flank, where Nelson's ships are represented on the top of each flagpole.  The top of the Corinthian column (based on one from the Temple of Mars Ultor in Rome) is decorated with bronze acanthus leaves cast from British cannon.  The square pedestal is decorated with four bronze panels, cast from captured French guns, depicting Nelson's four great victories.
  The monument was designed by architect William Railton in 1838, and built by the firm Peto & Grissell.  Railton's original 1:22-scale stone model is exhibited at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London.  The sandstone statue at the top was sculpted by E.H. Baily, a member of the Royal Academy; a small bronze plaque crediting him is at the base of the statue.  The four bronze panels around the pedestal were undertaken by the sculptors Musgrave Watson, John Ternouth, William F Woodington, and John Edward Carew.  The entire monument was built at a cost of 47,500 pounds, or 3.5 million pounds in 2004 terms (roughly $6.1 million US).  The four lions, by Sir Edwin Landseer, at the column's base were added after much delay in 1867.  In 1925 a Scottish confidence trickster, Arthur Furguson, "sold" the landmark to an unknowing American (who also "sold" Big Ben and Buckingham Palace.)
  The Column also had some symbolic importance to Adolf Hitler.  If Hitler's plan to invade Britain, Operation Sealion, had been successful, he planned to move the Column to Berlin.  (Quoted from the site of "Wikipedia")
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(Monday 10 August) Nelson's Colum, Trafalgar Square
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(Monday 10 August) Nelson's Colum, Trafalgar Square
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(Monday 10 August) Nelson's Colum, Trafalgar Square
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(Monday 10 August) Nelson's Colum, Trafalgar Square
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(Monday 10 August) Nelson's Colum, Trafalgar Square :
North side of the plinth, depicting the Death of Nelson, by John Edward Carew.
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(Monday 10 August) Nelson's Colum, Trafalgar Square:
East face of the plinth, depicting the Battle of Cape St Vincent by Musgrave Watson.
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(Monday 10 August) Nelson's Colum, Trafalgar Square
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(Monday 10 August) Nelson's Colum, Trafalgar Square
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(Monday 10 August) Nelson's Colum, Trafalgar Square:
One of Sir Edwin Landseer's Lions guarding the outside diagonals of Nelson's Column.
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(Monday 10 August) Trafalgar Square, viewed from the foot of Nelson's Colum
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(Monday 10 August) The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square.
  The National Gallery in London, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square.  The gallery is a non-departmental public body; its collection belongs to the public of the United Kingdom and entry to the main collection (though not some special exhibitions) is free of charge.
  Unlike comparable art museums such as the Louvre in Paris or the Museo del Prado in Madrid, the National Gallery was not formed by nationalising an existing royal or princely art collection.  It came into being when the British government bought 36 paintings from the banker John Julius Angerstein in 1824.  After that initial purchase the Gallery was shaped mainly by its early directors, notably Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, and by private donations, which comprise two thirds of the collection.  The resulting collection is small in size, compared with many European national galleries, but encyclopaedic in scope; most major developments in Western painting "from Giotto to Cezanne" are represented with important works.  It used to be claimed that this was one of the few national galleries that had all its works on permanent exhibition, but this is no longer the case.
  The present building, the third to house the National Gallery, was designed by William Wilkins from 1832-1838.  Only the facade onto Trafalgar Square remains essentially unchanged from this time, as the building has been expanded piecemeal throughout its history.  The building often came under fire for its perceived aesthetic deficiencies and lack of space; the latter problem led to the establishment of the Tate Gallery for British art in 1897.  The Sainsbury Wing, an extension to the west by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, is a notable example of Postmodernist architecture in Britain.  The current Director of the National Gallery is Nicholas Penny.(Quoted form the site of "Wikipedia")
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(Monday 10 August) The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square
  
  
  
The Charles Dickens Museum
  
  [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] The Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX.This is the only surviving London home of Charles Dickens where, between 1837 and 1839, Dickens completed famous works such as The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby.
  Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz," was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era and one of the most popular of all time.  He created some of literature's most memorable characters.  His novels and short stories have never gone out of print.  A concern with what he saw as the pressing need for social reform is a theme that runs throughout his work.
  Much of his work first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialised form, a favoured way of publishing fiction at the time.  Other writers of the time would complete entire novels before serial publication commenced, but Dickens often wrote his in parts, in the order in which they were meant to appear.  The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by one cliffhanger after another to keep the public eager for the next installment.  Critics and fellow-novelists such as George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton have applauded Dickens for his mastery of prose, and for his teeming gallery of unique characters, many of whom have acquired iconic status in the English-speaking world.  Others such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf have accused him of sentimentality and implausibility.(Quoted from the site of "Wikipedia")
  
  
  There are some descriptions about Charles Dickens in Joyce's works:
  
Critical Writings

32. "Borlase and Son"

A review of Borlase and Son by T. Baron Russell in the Daily Express, November 19. 1903

  
    The suburban mind is not invariably beautiful, and its working is here delineated with unsentimental vigour.  Perhaps the unctuousness of old Borlase is somewhat overstated, and the landladies may be reminiscent of Dickens.  In spite of its "double circle" plot, "Borlase and Son" has much original merit, and the story, a little slender starveling of a story, is told very neatly and often very humorously.  For the rest, the binding of the book is as ugly as one could reasonably expect.  (CW pp. 139-40)

  
  
Stephen Hero

  
  And so on.  A day or two afterwards Stephen gave his mother a few of the plays to read.  She read them with great interest and found Nora Helmer a charming character.  Dr Stockmann she admired but her admiration was naturally checked by her son's light-heartedly blasphemous description of that stout burgher as 'Jesus in a frock-coat.'  But the play which she preferred to all others was the Wild Duck.  Of it she spoke readily and on her own initiative: it had moved her deeply.  Stephen, to escape a charge of hot-headedness and partizanship, did not encourage her to an open record of her feelings.
  --I hope you're not going to mention Little Nell in the Old Curiosity Shop.
  --Of course I like Dickens too but I can see a great difference between Little Nell and that poor little creature -- what is her name? . . .
  --Hedvig Ekdal?
  --Hedvig, yes ... It's so sad: it's terrible to read it even . . . I quite agree with you that Ibsen is a wonderful writer.
  --Really?
  --Yes, really.  His plays have impressed me very much.
  --Do you think he is immoral?
  --Of course, you know, Stephen, he treats of subjects . . . of which I know very little myself . . . subjects .(SH XIX, p.86)
  
  
Ulysses

  
18.0143.  have one yes when I lit the lamp because he must have come 3 or 4 times
18.0144.  with that tremendous big red brute of a thing he has I thought the vein or
18.0145.  whatever the dickens they call it was going to burst though his nose is not
18.0146.  so big after I took off all my things with the blinds down after my hours
18.0147.  dressing and perfuming and combing it like iron or some kind of a thick
18.0148.  crowbar standing all the time he must have eaten oysters I think a few

18.1129.  let me up out of this pooh sweets of sin whoever suggested that business for
18.1130.  women what between clothes and cooking and children this damned old
18.1131.  bed too jingling like the dickens I suppose they could hear us away over the
18.1132.  other side of the park till I suggested to put the quilt on the floor with the
18.1133.  pillow under my bottom I wonder is it nicer in the day I think it is easy I
  
  
Finnegans Wake

  
157.23:  about his ens to heed her) but it was all mild's vapour moist.  Not
157.24:  even her feignt reflection, Nuvoluccia, could they toke their
157.25:  gnoses off for their minds with intrepifide fate and bungless
157.26:  curiasity, were conclaved with Heliogobbleus and Commodus
157.27:  and Enobarbarus and whatever the coordinal dickens they did
157.28:  as their damprauch of papyrs and buchstubs said. As if that was
  
  
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(Monday 10 August) [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] L.C.C. Plaque of the Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
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(Monday 10 August) [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] The Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
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(Monday 10 August) [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] The Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
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(Monday 10 August) [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] The Marshalsea Grille, the Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
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(Monday 10 August) [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] The kitchen of the Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
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(Monday 10 August) [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] Dicken's reading desk, the Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
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(Monday 10 August) [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] The basement of the Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
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(Monday 10 August) [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] Wine cellar of the Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
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(Monday 10 August) [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] Tablet from 29 Johnson Street, Somers Town where was the Dickens family home from 1824 to 1829.  The house was demolished in 1932.  The Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
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(Monday 10 August) [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] The original step from in front of St George's Church, Southwark, where the heroine and her husband pause at the end of Little Dorrit.  The Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
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(Monday 10 August) [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] The rear garden of the Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
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(Monday 10 August) [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] The Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
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(Monday 10 August) [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] The Morning Room, the Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
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(Monday 10 August) [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] The Dining Room, the Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
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(Monday 10 August) [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] The Drawing Room, the Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
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(Monday 10 August) [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] The Drawing Room, the Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
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(Monday 10 August) [CW; SH XIX; U 18.0145 & 1131; FW 157.27] A bedroom where, it is believed, Mary Hogarth (Dickens' wife Catherine's younger sister) died.  The Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX




        


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