I started reading this piece on Charles Dickens and began thinking that the writer has a curiously familiar style. Don't look--see if you can spot the culprit. Anyway, Dickens' works reflect greatly on his particularly dreary childhood and he wasn't particularly progressive in his thoughts toward his fellow man throughout his life.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/04/the-dark-side-of-dickens/8031.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/04/the-dark-side-of-dickens/8031.
The best "visual" of Dickens' London that I've seen is at the Museum of London. Within the museum they've constructed a street depicting the meanness of the period and it really brings forth a feel for what it must have been to live there in that period. Except, of course, you don't get the smell aspect. Now, that would really bring the place to life.
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