What is recorded here

This blue commemorative plaque records: In 1852 Charles Dickens and his family lodged nearby in Camden Crescent while he wrote parts of Bleak House. The author Wilkie Collins was a regular visitor. Recorded plaque organisation: Dover Society.

Charles Dickens, a renowned Victorian novelist, and William Wilkie Collins, a prominent writer of sensation novels, collaborated and socialized in Camden, contributing to the creation of Dickens's novel "Bleak House," which critiques 19th-century British society and law.

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