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An " authentic Humphrey dress " from the Democratic National Convention in 1968 was brought in by Nancy Moses , executive director of the Atwater Kent Museum . " We have to have the word ' fun ' as part of our language , " said Nancy Kolb of the Please Touch Museum . Variety entertainment of all sorts could be seen in the Music Halls , either in smoke-filled taverns in working class neighborhoods , in chic cosmopolitan halls tucked away in the West End , or in glittering theatres like the Empire on Leicester Square , which offered picturesque ballet-extravaganzas . Those are indeed Penn students posing with the guard at St. James ' Palace ( a former leper hospital that is now Prince Charles ' house ) . Our readings will range from William Carleton 's early experiments in folklore and J.C. Mangan 's famine poetry to the ghost stories of Sheridan Le Fanu and the Celtic revival writing of William Butler Yeats . Historical Museum Commission , in Harrisburg , warned the group to consider the role of politics and how it affects cultural resources . " We should be training people to have ' Philadelphia eyes , " said Nancy Moses of the Atwater Kent Museum , so they can be alert to the built environment throughout the region . In 1836 , the London publishing firm Chapman and Hall hired the twenty-four-year-old hack writer and journalist Charles Dickens to write extended narrative captions for a series of woodcuts depicting humorous scenes of English sporting life . The woodcuts were to be done by Robert Seymour , a celebrated illustrator , and the series was intended to jumpstart Seymour 's flagging career - - but instead it marked the birth of the sensational publishing phenomenon that was Charles Dickens . Charles Dickens , William Thackeray , and George Eliot were the premier novelists of their day - - they wrote bestsellers , and those bestsellers made them internationally famous .