Dickens’s father was imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea, and prisons haunt his novels from Pickwick to Little Dorrit. Trumble visits them in turn, describing the history, buildings and daily life of Newgate, the Fleet, the Marshalsea and the King’s Bench, and setting Dickens’s own descriptions beside the record.
A fine companion for Dickens readers and anyone curious about the debtors’ prisons of old London. Download the free EPUB.