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Blue plaque on the London house which hid famous future author from debt collectors

The family hid there as creditors pursued John Dickens, and the experience later shaped Charles Dickens’s fiction about debt and poverty.

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In the summer of 1832 a house in Highgate became a haven for The Dickens family who were fleeing the patriarch's debts.

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Blue plaque on the London house which hid famous future author from debt collectors

In the summer of 1832 a house in Highgate became a haven for The Dickens family who were fleeing the patriarch's debts.

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