Dickens's London

[6] In addition to his later novels and short stories, Dickens's descriptions of London, published in various newspapers in the 1830s, were released as a collected edition Sketches by Boz in 1836.

[13] When Oliver joins the Artful Dodger to travel to Fagin's lair, they make their way through a series of streets until they reach the neighbourhood of Saffron Hill.

[14] While the novel's final scene is set on Jacob's Island, where the murderous Bill Sikes meets his death while trying to escape into part of the River Neckinger known as Folly's Ditch.

[18] The remaining wall also adjoins the churchyard of St George the Martyr where the fictional Amy (the Little Dorrit of the title) sleeps the night after arriving back late to the Marshalsea, and also where she marries Arthur Clennam.

[19] Another inmate of the Marshalsea, Mr Plornish, moves with his family to Bleeding Heart Yard, Farringdon, and receives a visit there from Arthur Clennam when he is making inquiries into the Dorrits.