Illustration of a street market in Dudley Street, Seven Dials, from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré, 1872. Seven Dials was a slum area near Covent Garden. Jerrold talks the squalor and hopelessness of the area and says that "In the street market of Drury Lane the mark of misery seems to be upon every man, woman, and child.'