Jacob's Island
Jacob's Island is an area in Bermondsey, in the modern borough of Southwark (London, England), on the south bank of the Thames. It was historically a slum and was represented in 19th-century texts including the Mysteries of the Court of London (1848-56) by George W. M. Reynolds (1814-1879), Alton Locke (1850) by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), and most famously Oliver Twist (1838) by Charles Dickens (1812-1870), in which Jacob's Island is the site of the death of the villain Bill Sykes.