Sudbury, where, owing to tho refusal of the borough Council to light the streets until October, private inhabitants a couple of months ago hung from the lamp-standards glass ]ars containing nightlights, was the birthplace of Gainsborough and the Eatanswill of "Pickwick." This honour wae ti/l lately olaimed by three Suffolk towns, but a few years since it was discovered that while Dickens was on the "Morning Chronicle" ho was sent down to Sudbury to report an election there, and that in the course of that election there occurred incidents,' reported in the local Press, which are obviously the germ of incidents recorded by Dickens in his account of the struggle at Eatanswill. Sudbury is a very ancient borough—its name is a corruption of South Borough—and returned members as far back as the reign of Elizabeth.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18233, 18 November 1924, Page 4
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