SOURCE · HISTORICAL RECORD
Historical record · Literary work (novel, poem or play) — A historical text, cited for what it says, not as current science.
Charles Dickens · Chapman and Hall, London
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Title, creator, publisher and date checked against the catalogue record on 2026-10-19 by an automated check. The Wikisource Index record (Chapman and Hall, 1839) and the Wikimedia Commons record of the scan (Internet Archive item venturesoflifead00dickrich) agree on the author, publisher and year; chapter 24 spans images 277–291. Date confirmed to the year. SmellBook publishes only the citation, the location of the passage and its own claim, never the work’s text.
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A smell of ironing in Nicholas Nickleby ↗
In Charles Dickens's novel Nicholas Nickleby (1839), a strong smell of ironing fills the little passage of a tailor's house where the family's linen is being got up.
A depiction in a novel published in 1839; it shows how the scene was written, not a record of a real household, and says nothing about ironing today.Source record SRC-DICKENS-1839
Permanent identifier smellbook:source:dickens-nicholas-nickleby-1839 · Graph record (JSON)
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-19.