Place | Extract |
| Boulogne-sur-Mer |
As he returned there, Charles Dickens must have liked the town of Boulogne, the following year he rented the property of M... |
| Boulogne-sur-Mer |
Dicken’s letters at the time tell of the happiness of living in Boulogne in M... |
| Broadstairs | Several of his letters coax their recipient to spend a few days at the seaside town by favourably describing the place... |
| Broadstairs | Mr and Mrs Dickens entertained a great deal in Broadstairs... |
| 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 | He was also well acquainted with some of its outlandish characters and frequently described and sometimes satirised them in his letters... |
| Broadstairs | Dickens knew Broadstairs sufficiently well to expect certain things there... |
| Broadstairs | This letter to John Forster states that had the weather been calm Dickens would have taken a boat to visit his friend... |
| Broadstairs | Until they were widely embraced by the public, travellers around Kent used steam-boats whenever possible as this was a faster and more comfortable way of locomotion than travelling by road... |
| Broadstairs | One of the reasons why Dickens prized Broadstairs so much was that it had an aura of tranquillity around it that allowed him to recuperate from his busy career and write in peace and quiet... |
| Broadstairs | The following letter, addressed to his American friend Professor Charles Felton, provides first-hand insight into Dickens’s habits in Broadstairs... |
| 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 | The situation must indeed have been unbearable as it nearly drove Dickens from the town he cherished so much as he mentions in this letter to John Forster... |
| Broadstairs | Dickens was very fond of Broadstairs and this is no doubt due in part to the fact that he used it as a convalescence retreat... |
| Chalk | After the birth of their first child the following year, the new family returned for another stay in Chalk... |
| Chatham | 1... |
| Chatham | 2... |
| Chatham | Pickwick and his companions to Rochester and Chatham, during which they get so caught up in the excitement of one of these reviews that they unwittingly find themselves in the midst of a mock siege... |
| Cliffe-at-Hoo | It is to the damp mound of the Cliffe Battery, all that remained of a Tudor fortification on the river bank, that Pip makes his tremulous way to carry provisions and a file to the fugitive Magwitch... |
| Cobham | Pickwick and friends, in search of the lovelorn Mr... |
| Cobham | ’ One of the most welcome of Cobham’s buildings to Dickens’s visitors in the course of their brisk sight-seeing must have been ‘The Leather Bottle’ – ‘a clean and commodious village ale-house’... |
| Condette |
The link between Dickens and Condette still remains as in 1978 the first meeting of the « Friends of Charles Dickens Boulogne-Condette » took place... |
| Cooling | Other Hoo villages - Lower Higham, Hoo St... |
| Faversham | The unnamed narrator finds himself in a situation still familiar today: obliged to stay in Faversham because there is no train to London... |
| Gadshill | The sale was completed in March 1856 for £1,790... |
| Gadshill | Although often absent on his reading tours or working in his London office, whenever Dickens was at home at Gad’s Hill Place, the house became the focus of a busy family and social life... |
| Gravesend | Tuggs, in ‘The Tuggses at Ramsgate’, considered Gravesend ‘too low for a family holiday’, Dickens was sufficiently impressed with Waites’s Hotel on the waterfront to hold his birthday dinners there for several years... |
| Herne Bay | They were frequent correspondents and Douglas Jerrold between 1807 and 1815... |
| Strood | Dickens not only knew the Medway towns well enough to describe their individual characteristics, he was also able to capture the impression they would collectively make on the visitor such as Mr... |
