Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Language College

Main Menu

The School term begins for Year 7 girls on Friday 3rd September 2010 at 9.00am.

Years 8-11 begin on Monday 6th September 2010 at 8.40am.

Trip to Dickens House by Joy Lawrence 7T

On Wednesday 7th July 2010 7T went to visit the great home of the man behind books: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol etc... Charles Dickens.We were split up into to groups and were escorted into Dickens’ house. We were told that he lived in theat house when he was around 25 years old with his wife and first child.

As we entered the library we noticed it was filled with his books organised from the oldest to the latest versions, there were items in the room which had been preserved from when he first lived in the house, such as the doors and doorknocker.

We carried out our tour through many rooms and stopped at the room of his sister in law (whom he secretly loved). But sadly she died later on. Charles was deeply saddened and wrote little notes in his books about her. We entered another room but we had to stand behind the line or the alarm would have gone off. Accidentally we set off the alarm which guarded a grand room which was beautifully decorated.

We also visited a temporary exhibit on “Oliver Twist” This room contained information about the characters and had two realistic mannequins dressed in Victorian costumes.Later on we re-visited the library and read papers which had so much information about New Gate Prison, the Meat Market, Debtor’s Prison and more.

We really enjoyed our tour as we learnt about Charles Dickens and that he based his characters on real people to write his thought provoking books.