Charles Dickens also reported for the press on parliamentary elections, which helped to inspire his depiction of Eatanswill in the Pickwick Papers. Find out more about his unpleasant experience of the Northants North by-election in our article: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/f...
Today’s blog marks the anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth by exploring the inspiration behind one of the most notable political events in his first novel. Dickens’s riotous descript…