The route being retraced to the Foundling Hospital, and thence continued through Guilford Street to _Russell __Square_, we turn (right) by _Woburn Place_ to TAVISTOCK SQUARE, on the south side of which (TAVISTOCK VILLAS) is situated Tavistock House. To this residence Dickens removed (from DEVONSHIRE TERRACE) in October 1851, retaining its possession for nearly ten years. During this time “Bleak House” was completed, and “Hard Times,” “Little Dorrit,” and the “Tale of Two Cities” were given to the world. TAVISTOCK HOUSE is now transformed into a Jewish College. _Hans Christian Andersen_, visiting his friend in London, gives the following description:— “In Tavistock Square stands Tavistock House. This and the strip of garden in front of it are shut out from the thoroughfare by an iron railing. A large garden, with a grass plat and high trees, stretches behind the house, and gives it a countrified look in the midst of this coal and gas steaming London. In the passage from street to garden hung pictures and engravings. Here stood a marble bust of Dickens, so like him, so youthful and handsome; and over a bedroom door were inserted the bas-reliefs of Night and Day, after Thorwaldsen. On the first floor was a rich library, with a fireplace and a writing-table, looking out on the garden; and here it was that in winter Dickens and his friends acted plays to the satisfaction of all parties. The kitchen was underground, and at the top of the house were the bedrooms.” [Picture: Tavistock House] Leaving this locality at the north-west angle, passing _Gordon Square_, we turn (right) into _Gordon Street_, and (left) through _Gower Place_, to GOWER STREET, on the west side of which—opposite—is the house once bearing a large brass plate on the door, announcing Mrs. Dickens’s Establishment, being the place at which Mrs. Dickens (mother of Charles) endeavoured to set up a school during the difficult times of 1822. The family lived here for a short time, previous to the Marshalsea imprisonment of Dickens senior; Charles being then a boy ten years of age. In the first chapter of Forster’s Biography is the following:—