From: Charles Dickens <????????????????????>
To : Charles Dickens Forum <????????????????????????>
Subject: Re: A Broseley

It's been suggested to me that, somewhere, CD uses the term,
a "Broseley," to signify the long-stemmed clay tobacco pipe,
usually known as a "churchwarden," provided to people
in inns and taverns, calling for pipe and tobacco.  Broseley
is a village in the Potteries region of Staffordshire, where there
was a kiln producing such pipes.  This is being recommissioned,
and opened as an industrial museum.  The organisers have contacted
me with this suggestion, and are keen to establish a Dickens
connection.

I suspect they may be wrong.  I've checked the usual reference
books without success.  Nor is it to be found in such an obvious
place as "A Plated Article."  My voices tell me it may be in
one of the _HW_ or _AYR_ articles, not by Dickens, but supposed
to be so, or in something Charley wrote, post 1870.  I notice
there are several pieces on tobacco in _AYR_, but I've not had
time to check them yet.

Has anyone come across this usage, in CD's own works, or in
associated works?


David Parker, The Dickens House Museum, London

Charles Dickens
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