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Dickens’ London and Mr. Darcy’s, Too by Mary Simonsen

“Hell is a city much like London — A populous and smoky city.” Percy Bysshe Shelley* The excerpt below is taken from the opening paragraphs of Chapter I of Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. It is a brilliant description of what London was like in 1852-53 when Bleak House was serialized. However, it is not that far …

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