Outside London, there is no part of Britain that has such intimate and sustained associations with Charles Dickens as Kent. Dickens's life was restless and nomadic, but it was the tranquillity of his Kentish childhood that provided the background for some of his first ventures into fiction and inspiration for parts of his later novels. The county remained a lifelong refuge from the chaos of the capital.
In Dickens's Kent, Peter Clark follows the writer's footsteps from the house he shared with his first wife, Catherine, in Tavistock Square to his home at Gad's Hill Place, near Rochester, where he died in 1870. Clark goes on to explore the areas of Kent most closely associated with Dickens's life and work - the Medway Towns and their surroundings, Thanet and East Kent, and finally Staplehurst, the scene of the railway accident that almost killed him.
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Höhe: 196 mm
Breite: 130 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
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978-1-914982-11-8 (9781914982118)
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Peter Clark is a writer and translator, and Research Associate at SOAS, University of London. He worked in the overseas service of the British Council for over thirty years, has translated novels and history from Arabic, and written books on Istanbul and Marmaduke Pickthall. He is the author of Dickens's London and Churchill's Britain.
Contents
Introduction 1
london into kent 11
gad's hill 31
the medway towns 53
Rochester and Strood 53
Chatham 73
around the medway towns 82
The Marshes 82
Cobham 88
South of Rochester 93
Towards Canterbury 96
east kent 98
Broadstairs 98
Margate 109
Deal 111
Dover 112
Folkestone 114
Canterbury 117
staplehurst 123
Bibliography 129
Acknowledgements 135
