The Old Curiosity Shop [SEP] narrative location
Old Curiosity Shop in London.
Queen Victoria read the novel in 1841, and found it "very interesting and cleverly written".
Plot.
Plot Background.
The events of the book seem to take place around 1825. In Chapter 29 Miss Monflathers refers to the death of Lord Byron, who died on 19 April 1824. When the inquest rules (incorrectly) that Quilp committed suicide, his corpse is ordered to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart, a practice banned in 1823.
. Ye Olde Curiosity Shop Too closed around the same time Market Street Traders opened.
Name and location.
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop began in late 1899 as Standley's Free Museum and Curio on Second Avenue at Pike Street. It moved in November 1901 to 82 W. Madison, across from the old Rainier Grand Hotel on Front Street (now First Avenue). At that time the store was called The Curio; it soon became Standley's Curio. In June 1904 Standley moved his store to the waterfront, renamed it