Dickens is in Genoa at last! And it only took two weeks since leaving England. This will now be Dickens' main base for the next twelve months - he will travel back to London for Christmas, and down to Rome in the new year, but he will always come back to Genoa. Now that he's... Continue Reading →
Dickens and family are still en route to Marseilles to catch that boat to Genoa, having left Paris on 7th July. He writes of this ensuing stage that 'a sketch of one day's proceeding is a sketch of all three', referring to the monotony and uniformity of modern travel (a phenomena which James Buzard explores... Continue Reading →
Are we there yet? We know Dickens left England on 2 July, and we surmise from contemporary popular routes that he would have travelled from Boulougne through Abbeville and Beauvais to Paris. We can glean further details from a letter dated 7th August to 1844 to the Count D'Orsay, in which Dickens says: We had... Continue Reading →
On 2 July 1844 Dickens and his family set off from Dover for their journey to Genoa - it would take them 18 days to arrive there. For us as modern readers this timescale is either a heavenly idea of a leisurely tour, or a nightmarish vision of the ultimate travel delay; but from the... Continue Reading →
Dickens In Italy 