When Charles Dickens was 12 years old, his father, John, was taken away to Marshalsea Prison as punishment for incurring a debt of 40 pounds and 10 shillings (the equivalent of about £4,300 today).

Dickens was placed in the Marshalsea debtors’ prison, along with his wife and his children, with the exception of his 12-year-old son, who was put to work in a factory.

Dickens and the Marshalsea Prison. By Edmund Wilson. ... Pickwick has been framed by Dodson and Fogg, and very soon — another wronged man — he will land in the debtors’ prison, ...

When Charles Dickens was 12 years old, his father's debts finally caught up with him, and he was sent to the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison. (It was a baker who sent him there. John Dickens, ...

Aged 12, Dickens was sent to work at a boot-blacking factory when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea debtors prison. His father owed £40 - the same amount as Edward , Amy Dorrit's brother.

In the Lyric Feature on Sunday 29th February, Patricia Baker goes in search of the hidden history of a place behind a locked door in Dublin ...

Marshalsea Prison in Southwark, London[GETTY] At the southern end of Borough High Street, far away from London Bridge and the busy market, lies a narrow alleyway. ... Debtors were poor, ...

Tom Hawkins, the 25-year-old wastrel son of an English minister, has the misfortune to land in London’s hellish debtors’ prison, the Marshalsea Gaol. With his life and sanity at stake, Hawkins ...

Her name is Amy, but she’s known as the Child of the Marshalsea. ... Debtors’ prison — surely one of humankind’s worst ideas — was abolished in England by the Bankruptcy Act of 1869.

His father John, a clerk, was arrested and locked up in Marshalsea, a notorious debtors’ prison when he fell on hard times. It became Dickens’ job to push his childhood aside, leave his ...

Aged 12, Dickens was sent to work at a boot-blacking factory when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea debtors prison. His father owed £40 - the same amount as Edward , Amy Dorrit's brother.