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 | Several of his letters coax their recipient to spend a few days at the seaside town by favourably describing the place... |
| 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 | However, he often mentioned in his letters a certain Ballard, whom he found difficult to bear... |
| 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 | The family were staying in the Albion Hotel that had acquired a house that was once simply adjoined to it in which the Dickens had stayed several times before... |
| Broadstairs | However in the region in which Broadstairs is located the weather is far from being always suitable for this kind of activity... |
| Broadstairs | In Dickens’ time trains were just becoming a possible travel option... |
| 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 | Fond of Broadstairs as he was, Dickens was however not oblivious to the dramatic weather that it could host, nor to the fact that it was chosen by many (including himself) as a place of pure air and therefore beneficial to the health... |
| 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 she was under age, they had to obtain a special licence... |
| Chatham | In 1817 the five year old Charles Dickens moved with his family from London and after a brief stay in Sheerness, settled in Chatham, where his father, a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, had been given a promotion... |
| Chatham | Memories of Chatham Some of Dickens’s most vivid memories of the town must have been of the dockyard area where his father worked in the Naval Pay Office... |
| Chatham | He would have drawn on these early memories for the passage at the beginning of ‘The Pickwick Papers’ (1837) which describes the visit of Mr... |
| Cliffe-at-Hoo | In Dickens’s day there were still lime-kilns at Cliffe from which the prepared lime was transported down the canal and into Thames barges on the river... |
| 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 | They were no doubt his own sentiments that he put into the mouth of Mr... |
| Condette | »
Beaucourt-Mutuel finds a place in Dickens’ « Our Watering Place » in the character of Loyal-Devasseur... |
| 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 | My little place is a grave red brick house … which I have added to, and stuck bits upon, in all manner of ways: so that it is as pleasantly irregular, and as violently opposed to all architectural ideas, as the most hopeful man could possibly desire... |
| Gadshill | They boil over (if an affectionate parent may mention it) all over the house... |
| Gravesend | The newly widowed David Copperfield observes such a scene when he comes to see off the Micawbers and Mr... |
| Herne Bay | uk/database/en/author/Jerrold%20Douglas%20William">Douglas Jerrold; they acted together and had similar views of society... |
| Margate | Dickens was never so fond of Ramsgate as he was of Broadstairs... |
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| Pegwell Bay | Among these was a comic tale entitled ‘The Tuggses at Ramsgate’, which tells the story of the family of Mr... |
| 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 | Ramsgate was only known to him as a place of transit between London and Broadstairs or as the place where one of his publishers was established... |
| Ramsgate | The town, full of equally flirtatious and pretentious characters, at first seems to be the perfect back-drop for their story, as the excerpt below exemplifies... |
| Ramsgate | Bathing was one of Dickens pastimes when he was in Kent... |
| Rochester | The present day Eastgate House was the ‘Nuns’ House’; Canon Row became ‘Minor Canon Corner’, home to the Rev... |
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| Strood | He mentioned it in a piece on ‘Tramps’ he wrote in ‘The Uncommercial Traveller’... |
