Account Book
Dickens’s 1839 account book shows that he, rather than Catherine, paid their servants’ wages. This was an unusual level of involvement in domestic affairs for a male head of the household.
Account book, 1839.
AA26. © Charles Dickens Museum
Purchased with support from the National Heritage Monument Trust, the Art Fund, Friends of the National Libraries and the Dickens Fellowship.
AA26. © Charles Dickens Museum
Purchased with support from the National Heritage Monument Trust, the Art Fund, Friends of the National Libraries and the Dickens Fellowship.