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He had published another article in 1851 on Broadstairs: "Our English Watering Place"...

Beaucourt-Mutuel and situated where the present-day lycée Mariette is, rue Beaurepaire...

Dickens entertained extensively at Broadstairs and was often inviting his friends to stay...

Mr and Mrs Dickens entertained a great deal in Broadstairs...

However, he often mentioned in his letters a certain Ballard, whom he found difficult to bear...

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...

He was also well acquainted with some of its outlandish characters and frequently described and sometimes satirised them in his letters...

Dickens knew Broadstairs sufficiently well to expect certain things there...

Dickens greatly enjoyed the outdoors and some of Broadstairs’ attraction lay in the fact that after intensive writing he could escape on walks of several hours or bathe in the sea...

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...

Unfortunately for Dickens, the town gained in popularity in the mid-nineteenth century especially during the summer months...

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...

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’...

By 1849, when this letter was written, Dickens was well acquainted with Broadstairs and with its unpredictable weather...

Dickens gives a delightful portrayal of Broadstairs in this letter to his friend Miss Allan...

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...

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...

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...

After a period of fatigue which he was seeking to recover from at Broadstairs, Dickens wrote to a friend that he was now ready to write the 18th number of the Pickwick Papers (which does not allude to the town)...

As she was under age, they had to obtain a special licence...

The carefree days came to an abrupt end when John Dickens was posted back to London, where he would slide even further into debt, a process that ended with him briefly incarcerated in Marshalsea Prison...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It was here that Mr...

The association has taken on the upkeep of the Beaucourt family tombs...

The 13 pathetic little lozenge-shaped gravestones huddled together in Cooling churchyard indicate the high level of infant mortality in the Hoo Peninsula in the eighteenth century...

An article of uncertain authorship, featuring Faversham and entitled ‘Assault and Battery’ (1864), was published in Dickens’s periodical All the Year Round...

The 'little Kentish freehold'...

After dinner in the evenings there were piano recitals, singing, party games and billiards...

Although Mr...

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Dickens was never so fond of Ramsgate as he was of Broadstairs...

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Among these was a comic tale entitled ‘The Tuggses at Ramsgate’, which tells the story of the family of Mr...

Accommodation seems to have been a problem for Dickens at the time when he wrote this letter to John Forster in September 1839...

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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...

Bathing was one of Dickens pastimes when he was in Kent...

In the Christmas stories which he began to write about this time he places himself in one of them, ‘The Seven Poor Travellers’, which centres on Watts’s Charity, a building in Rochester endowed by the 16th century M...

They rented a small house next to the theatre before moving to Chatham four months later...

He mentioned it in a piece on ‘Tramps’ he wrote in ‘The Uncommercial Traveller’...