His books include Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Twist and Dombey and Son.
Dickens is associated with London, writing about some of its worst and most corrupt institutions, often wandering the capital city’s streets at night thinking about plots for his novels.
But he travelled across the country and abroad, delivering lectures and theatrical productions.
9. Dickens travelled across Yorkshire
He visited Smithson regularly and was complimentary about his surroundings. In a letter to academic Cornelius C Felton, he told how he visited "remarkable" Kirkham Abbey. “Ah, Heaven! Such green woods as I was rambling among”. Dickens and the North is published by Grayswood Press.
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