On February 20, 1824, when Charles was twelve, John Dickens was arrested for debt and taken to the Marshalsea Prison, announcing, as he left the house: ‘The sun has set upon me forever!’ ...

Tucked in just off Bridgefoot Street in Dublin's Liberties, a battered old green street sign high on a stone wall bears the name 'Marshalsea Lane’, a street that no longer exists. It is also the only ...

Why is the Marshalsea prison the focal point of Little Dorrit ... and told very little about it. Debtors prisons were a constant presence looming over the lives of those who were or had been ...

Almost at once he becomes involved in the problems of his mother's seamstress Amy Dorrit and of her father residing in the Marshalsea debtors' prison. Pursuing their cause Arthur comes across a ...

Through the stories in A Debtors’ Prison, students will understand how aggressive policing, court fees and monetary sentencing have created a cycle of debt and incarceration in poor communities ...

Maggy is one of the Marshalsea regulars - her late mother was a nurse there, and Maggy continues to live round the corner from the prison. Maggy fell gravely ill when she was ten years old and ...