A monument to William Shakespeare is in the Poets Corner at Westminster Abbey in London. Many famous British writers are memorialized here, including Charles Dickens and Geoffrey Chaucer.

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Dr. Johnson's House, is a small museum in the 300-year-old townhouse where Samuel Johnson lived in London. Johnson was an author, critic and lexicographer who wrote A Dictionary of the English Language.

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People walk across a snowy Millennium Bridge near St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

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A blue plaque is on the exterior of Charles Dickens' home, part of the Charles Dickens Museum in London. For years, the four-story brick row house where the author lived with his young family was a dusty and slightly neglected museum, a mecca for Dickens scholars, but overlooked by most visitors.

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A servant's room in Charles Dickens' home, part of the Charles Dickens Museum.

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Workers walk across London Bridge. For visitors on a literary tour of London, Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" included a scene in which Pip crossed the bridge in great despair after learning that Estella was to be married to Drummle.

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