Editing Camden Town (section)

===In literature===
*Author [[Charles Dickens]], a onetime resident of Camden Town,<ref>{{cite book|last=Pope-Hennessy|first=Una |author-link=Una Pope-Hennessy|title=Charles Dickens 1812–1870|publisher=Chatto and Windus|location=London|year=1945|page=11|chapter=The Family Background}}</ref> placed various characters and places in his stories there as well: [[Bob Cratchit]]'s family in ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' (1843); the [[Wilkins Micawber|Micawbers]] in ''[[David Copperfield]]'' (1850); and in ''[[Dombey and Son]]'' (1846–1848), a description of the building of the [[London and Birmingham Railway]], includes a trip through Camden Town.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thecnj.com/review/2009/042309/stgeorge042309_03.html|title= Camden's famous faces|date=23 April 2009 |publisher=Camden New Journal|access-date=6 November 2009}}</ref>
*[[E. Nesbit]]'s 1904 children's novel ''[[The Phoenix and the Carpet]]'' is set at 18 Camden Terrace, Camden Town.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rosenberg |first=Teya |chapter=Generic Manipulation and Mutation: E. Nesbit's Psammead Series as Early Magical Realism |editor-last=Jones |editor-first=Raymond E. |title=E. Nesbit's Psammead Trilogy: A Children's Classic at 100 |year=2006 |page=72 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810854017 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FLERfuhpRSMC&pg=PA72}}</ref>
*[[John Betjeman]]'s poem "Business Girls" is set in Camden Town.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thecnj.com/review/020906/features020906_01.html|title=Betjeman's great defender|first=Jane|last=Wright |date=2006|newspaper=Camden New Journal|author=<!--not stated-->}}</ref>
*The climax of [[John le Carré]]'s 1974 spy novel ''[[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]]'' occurs in a [[safe house]] at 5 Lock Gardens in Camden Town, a fictitious address modelled after real-life St. Mark's Crescent.<ref>Paula Span, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1992/10/11/tinker-tailor-soldier-tourist/328617f0-4b73-4c6e-9377-1fbd48c5db2e/ ''TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER... TOURIST''], ''The Washington Post'', accessed 27 January 2016</ref>