A dreary waste, inhabited by a few scattered people of questionable character, whose poverty prevented their living in any better neighbourhood, or whose pursuits and mode of life rendered its solitude desirable.

• ‘A dreary waste, inhabited by a few scattered people of questionable character, whose poverty prevented their living in any better neighbourhood, or whose pursuits and mode of life rendered its solitude desirable‘ is a quotation from Sketches by Boz, Tales, Chapter 6 (The Black Veil).

• Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces written by Charles Dickens and published as a two-volume collected work in 1836.

Quotation describing the ‘back part’ of Walworth at the turn of the nineteenth century. Walworth was then on the outskirts of the London metropolis.

The Charles Dickens sketch, The Black Veil, was specially written for Volume 2 of Sketches by Boz, published in February 1836. A macabre tale set at the turn of the nineteenth century, The Black Veil tells the story of a young doctor who is visited by a strange woman dressed in black mourning clothes seeking help for what appears at first glance to be her gravely ill son. However the doctor is told not to visit until the following day for a reason that will become apparent when he arrives.

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