Contents
Reading edition
page
Introduction 11
The London Dickens Knew 20
Dickens' Literary Life 47
The Highway of Letters 60
Dickens' Contemporaries 73
The Locale of the Novels 99
Disappearing London 119
The County of Kent 139
The River Thames 160
Manners and Customs 181
Past and Present 211
The Under World 236
London Topography 246
A Brief Chronology 287
Index 289