A first edition of Bleak House.
Teeming with Victorian artifacts, “Dickens and London” is the UK’s first major display on the novelist in more than four decades. The exhibit will feature projections, manuscripts and a soundtrack, all meant to illuminate some of the most resounding themes from Dickens’s life and work, including poverty, charity and the class system. At the Museum of London until June 10, the display offers a glimpse into Britain’s capital as the novelist experienced it, through his best and worst of times.