Place | Extract |
| Boulogne-sur-Mer | On July 2nd 1844 the Dickens family arrived off the steam packet from Dover... |
| Boulogne-sur-Mer | Dickens wrote of the town itself and of the hospitality of the landlord... |
| Broadstairs | Dickens entertained extensively at Broadstairs and was often inviting his friends to stay... |
| Broadstairs | Full of first-hand knowledge of the place and its surroundings due to his long and numerous walks, Dickens had the gift of persuading his friends to visit him... |
| Broadstairs | Ballard was the landlord of the Albion Hotel, where Dickens and his family frequently stayed... |
| Broadstairs | Dickens was obviously enjoying the summer in Broadstairs when he wrote this letter entreating his friend Mark Lemon and his wife to come visit the family in Broadstairs... |
| Broadstairs | By 1849 Dickens knew Broadstairs very well... |
| Broadstairs | Dickens knew Broadstairs sufficiently well to expect certain things there... |
| Broadstairs | However in the region in which Broadstairs is located the weather is far from being always suitable for this kind of activity... |
| Broadstairs | This letter to John Forster sheds light on the details of travelling... |
| Broadstairs | Unfortunately for Dickens, the town gained in popularity in the mid-nineteenth century especially during the summer months... |
| Broadstairs | By the time this letter was written (1843) Dickens knew Broadstairs well and had come to establish certain routines there as this letter delightfully depicts in which Dickens christens himself Boz, his early pseudonym... |
| Broadstairs | In this letter to his friend Macready, Dickens ‘solemnly declares’ his affection for Broadstairs and proclaims it to be ‘the finest feature in all creation’... |
| Broadstairs | By 1849, when this letter was written, Dickens was well acquainted with Broadstairs and with its unpredictable weather... |
| Broadstairs | Dickens gives a delightful portrayal of Broadstairs in this letter to his friend Miss Allan... |
| Broadstairs | The house, now baptised ‘Dickens House’ was minutely described by Dickens in David Copperfield and as no house of such description, nor any inhabitant of such peculiar description, have ever been identified in Dover, it is safe to assume that the cottage in Broadstairs and its occupier are what originally inspired Dickens... |
| Broadstairs | The following letter, addressed to Miss Marguerite Powers, is distinct from his other pieces about Broadstairs in that it presents the town as an unattractive stormy place, full of ill children and boring speakers... |
| Broadstairs | Having written just a month before to his friend Mark Lemon describing the tranquillity of Broadstairs, Dickens now finds the place invaded by musicians whose musical abilities are inversely proportionate to their over-enthusiasm... |
| Broadstairs | The wit and dynamism of the Paper are proof of the health benefits Dickens reaped from Broadstairs... |
| Chalk | As a break from work, Dickens would take himself off on wide-ranging walks in the surrounding countryside, a habit he retained throughout his life... |
| Chatham | In a piece entitled ‘Dullborough Town’(1860), written for his journal ‘All The Year Round’, Dickens describes the shock, familiar to all those who revisit childhood haunts, of finding things drastically changed and stripped of their magic... |
| Chatham | It was as a writer at the height of his powers, however, that Dickens summoned up the cacophonous activity of Chatham Dockyard working at full stretch in another article he wrote for ‘All The Year Round... |
| Chatham | Apart from all the attractions of the dockside, there were the fortifications and the garrison buildings of the Chatham Lines, intended to protect that area vital to the nation’s defence from landward attack... |
| Cliffe-at-Hoo | Later in the book Pip is lured by Orlick to an old sluice-gate hut on the banks of the canal near the lime-works... |
| Cobham | Dickens’s remembered delight in those early walks with his father is clear in every line of the description he gives in ‘The Pickwick Papers’ (1837)of the same walk undertaken by Mr... |
| Cobham | 2... |
| Condette | The association has taken on the upkeep of the Beaucourt family tombs... |
| Cooling | He used the poignant setting when describing the last resting place of Pip’s parents and infant brothers (although he reduced their number to 5) at the opening of ‘Great Expectations’ (1860-1)... |
| Faversham | An article of uncertain authorship, featuring Faversham and entitled ‘Assault and Battery’ (1864), was published in Dickens’s periodical All the Year Round... |
| Gadshill | The 'little Kentish freehold'... |
| Gadshill | They boil over (if an affectionate parent may mention it) all over the house... |
| Gravesend | It was demolished in 1942... |
| Herne Bay | org... |
| Margate | Dickens was never so fond of Ramsgate as he was of Broadstairs... |
| Margate | Consequently, the town is not described in great detail in any of his writings... |
| Pegwell Bay | Tuggs, a London grocer, who having come into money, decide to holiday at Ramsgate... |
| Ramsgate | Accommodation seems to have been a problem for Dickens at the time when he wrote this letter to John Forster in September 1839... |
| Ramsgate | Dickens was never so fond of Ramsgate as he was of |
| Strood | He mentioned it in a piece on ‘Tramps’ he wrote in ‘The Uncommercial Traveller’... |
