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Dickens's Kent
Peter Clark
出版Haus Publishing, 2024-09-03
主題Travel / GeneralTravel / Europe / Great BritainTravel / Special Interest / LiteraryTravel / Special Interest / Hikes & Walks
ISBN19149821429781914982149
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iFgXEQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A geographical narrative of Charles Dickens’s life in Kent.

Few novelists have written so intimately about a city as Charles Dickens wrote about London, but he was intimately connected to Kent more than any other part of Britain. Perhaps Kent meant more to him than the capital. He had an idyllic childhood in Chatham and Kent features in his first works of fiction, Sketches by Boz and The Pickwick Papers, and in his favorite novel, David Copperfield. In his last ten years, he wrote two novels with strong Kentish themes, Great Expectations and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He had his honeymoon outside Gravesend and often spent the summer months in Broadstairs. In 1856, he bought Gad’s Hill Place, near Rochester, and died there in 1870.

Dickens’s Kent begins with the description of a walk from London to Dickens's main residence, Gad’s Hill Place, before taking the reader to areas in Kent most closely associated with his life and work: the Medway Towns and their surroundings, Thanet and East Kent, and finally Staplehurst, the scene of the railway accident that nearly killed him.