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  1. I use to love it when a Dickens novel ventured into the Limehouse district. I found the squalid side of Victorian England just fascinating. Even the opium dens, like in his unfinished work The Mystery of Edwin Drood. From a website "Fictional smokescreen? The Victorian opium den" -- Victorian Literature has given me further possibilities for populating my little world – and here I’ve explored a darker side of the Victorian dream. In the works of Coleridge, Collins, De Quincey [ _Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey was fascinating], Dickens, Wilde, Conan Doyle et al, I find narratives peppered with social depravation, dastardly deeds and drugs. In the East End of Victorian London, particularly the docklands areas of Limehouse, Shadwell and Stepney are a warren of tiny ginnels and alleyways filled with gambling sailors, criminal lairs, whorehouses… and opium dens._
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