Noun
The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAnd from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea. Charles Dickens
Callow, p.25 The Marshalsea around 1897, after it had closed A few months after his imprisonment, John Dickens's paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Dickens, died and bequeathed him £450. Source: Internet
Dickens's father was sent to prison for debt, and this became a common theme in many of his books, with the detailed depiction of life in the Marshalsea prison in Little Dorrit resulting from Dickens's own experiences of the institution. Source: Internet
On Sundays—with his sister Frances, free from her studies at the Royal Academy of Music —he spent the day at the Marshalsea. Source: Internet
Little Dorrit is Amy, born in debtors prison, the youngest child of debtor William Dorrit, an inmate of the Marshalsea. Source: Internet
Pass the site of the Marshalsea Prison where his father was incarcerated for debt, and see the remains of a churchyard which may have influenced a scene from A Christmas Carol. Source: Internet