Marshalsea

Pass the site of the Marshalsea Prison where his father was incarcerated for debt, and see the remains of a churchyard which may have influenced a scene from A Christmas Carol.

Dickens's father was sent to prison for debt, and this became a common theme in many of his books, with the detailed depiction of life in the Marshalsea prison in Little Dorrit resulting from Dickens's own experiences of the institution.

Lists of prisoners at Marshalsea, Berwick and prison interviews conducted by Captain Eyre show some of these men to be English born, claiming to have been press-ganged or seized as prisoners on British ships.

Malory was convicted and he sent to the Marshalsea Prison in London, where he remained for a year.

Once again, he escaped and once again was apprehended and returned to Marshalsea Prison.

On Sundays—with his sister Frances, free from her studies at the Royal Academy of Music —he spent the day at the Marshalsea.

When they reached the Marshalsea Prison in Southwark, they tore it apart.