Dickensian Inns & Taverns

The Blue Dragon is an inn whose name, through the magic pen of Dickens, has become as familiar as that of the veritable Pecksniff himself, and almost as important. Dickens found...

In the First Branch of "The Holly Tree," in _Christmas Stories_, there are many inns far and wide referred to, and reminiscences associated with each recalled. These reminiscenc...

The first stop of Nicholas's coach after it had left the Saracen's Head was at the Peacock, at Islington, an inn of immense popularity in those palmy days when the north-country...

The outstanding tavern in _Our Mutual Friend_ is that with the pleasant-sounding name of The Six Jolly Fellowship-Porters, the favoured resort of Rogue Riderhood, Gaffer Hexam,...

It is a curious fact that Wood's Hotel, one of London's old-time inns which must have been familiar to Dickens in his very early days--even before he commenced writing his _Pick...

But let us return to David on the coach waiting to start for Salem House, Blackheath, via London. Having suffered a good deal of chaff from the maids and others over the huge di...

In Dickens's minor writings there are mentioned many inns, taverns and coffee-houses, some merely fictitious with fanciful names, others whose fame has been recorded in the soci...

Of all the inns with which Dickens's books abound there is none that plays so important a part in any of his stories as the Maypole at Chigwell does in _Barnaby Rudge_. Other in...

The Saracen's Head Inn, Snow Hill, long since demolished, is familiar to all readers of _Nicholas Nickleby_, because it was the hotel from which Squeers took coach with his boys...

There are very few instances in Dickens's descriptions of London that were not the outcome of his own actual observations. But in writing _Barnaby Rudge_, the action of which to...

Notwithstanding the fact that _A Tale of Two Cities_ is to some persons Dickens's best book, or the one that many prefer to any other, it is the most barren for our purpose. Apa...

Although a good deal of _Dombey and Son_ is enacted at Brighton, only one of its famous hotels plays any prominent part in the story, and that is the Bedford. It is first mentio...

There are not many inns that can be identified in _Oliver Twist_, and those that can play very little part in the enactment of the story, or have any notable history to relate i...

in the first-floor room at the Sol's Arms, where the Harmonic Meetings take place twice a week, and where the chair is filled by a gentleman of professional celebrity, faced by...

In these days when life is, for the most part, and for most of us, a wearying process of bustle and "business," it is comforting as well as pleasant to reflect that the old coac...

Before Dickens commenced to write _David Copperfield_, he visited all the districts of its early scenes to obtain local colour, and to learn something of the geography of Blunde...

There are very few inns of any importance mentioned in _Bleak House_, and only one that plays any prominent part in the story. The one at Barnet, where Esther Summerson hired th...