Part Two:
A Photo Album of London sites
important to Charlotte Wimpole
in book 1: Growing Up Victorian

While Charlotte was attending Mrs. Crimpton's
school for etiquette, she performed child care services
for Mr. Yost of Bedford Street on weekends.



Chartlotte and the Ivanya sisters befriended
Dickens' illustrator, George Cruikshank, who
resided here at 69 Amwell Street a mere
city block from Myddelton Square.
The round placque to the right of the door
states that the famous caricaturist lived there.



Mrs. Crimpton's School For Etiquette, where
Charlotte's father sent her to aid in her
being more attractive to a suitor.
It stood here at the corner of Gray's Inn Lane
and Tash Street across from Gray's Inn.



The Soho Church of England School for the Poor.
Charlotte became the first female student here
in 1834 (age 8). Rosena Ivanya became the second
a year later. Mr. Wimpole was responsible for both girls
being placed there. In reality St. Giles-in-the-Fields,
it was located on High and Broad Streets in 1834.
Renamed St. Giles Street, it is just south of New Oxford Street.



Castle Street (now Furnival Street) this is where
Charlotte's meeting with her one and only suitor
took place: Albert Wedgeworth and family.



The University College of London
Described by some in the mid-1840s
as "That heathen school on Gower Street."
It is just south of Euston Road and
is where Charlotte sought out the facts of life
from Professor Hargrove.



The University College of London
As it would have looked in 1843



Holborn Street and Fetter Lane: here
the Commodities Exchange Market stood where
Charlotte's father was employed as a lowly clerk.



Mr. Breedlove lived here at the corner of
Pentonville and St. John Roads. He was the man
who abandoned his daughter, Sheridan, to the
Wofford Foundling Hosiptal. Charlotte wound up
tutoring the wild, mentally handicapped girl
at the hospital to pay for Mrs. Crimpton's school.



Now a dental college, on this site stood the
Pretoria Free Hospital. On Gray's Inn Road, it is
just across from Heathcote Street where Rosena lived.
When Charlotte's baby brother, Shelley, took ill
with fever, Charlotte brought him here.

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