bronze plaque
Charles Dickens and George Inn, Southwark bronze plaque
Charles Dickens · Novelist
Inscription
“In the courtyard at the rear of this building is the George-London's only galleried inn. Immortalized by Charles Dickens in "Little Dorrit"”
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1812-70
Life dates
73 Borough High Street
SE1
Historic Southwark
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Charles Dickens
novelist, journalist, policeman, son of John Dickens, son of Elizabeth Dickens, and friend of Thomas Latimer · (1812-1870)
George Inn, Southwark
inn
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