"uncovered decoration schemes from the mid 17th century, which reveal the fashionable taste of the period, much influenced by the fashions on the continent. According to the biographer John Forster, the novelist Charles Dickens, who lived nearby, used Restoration House as a model for Miss Havisham's Satis House in ""Great Expectations""; the name ""Satis House"" belongs to the house where Rochester MP, Sir Richard Watts, entertained Queen Elizabeth I – it is now the administrative office of King's School, Rochester. Restoration House Restoration House in Rochester, Medway, South East England, is a fine example of an Elizabethan mansion. It is"
"goes on with her taking charge of her family's business before descending into vengeful madness, adopting Estella, and arranging the meeting of Estella and Pip. A young version of Miss Havisham is portrayed by Tuppence Middleton in the 2015 BBC TV series ""Dickensian"". The series gives her the first name Amelia and references the period of her life in the months running up to her wedding. Satis House is relocated to London within the same community as other characters from novels by Dickens. In film adaptations of ""Great Expectations"", Miss Havisham has been played by a number of distinguished actresses,"
"Gads Hill Place Gads Hill Place in Higham, Kent, sometimes spelt Gadshill Place and Gad's Hill Place, was the country home of Charles Dickens, the most successful British author of the Victorian era. Today the building is the independent Gad's Hill School. The house was built in 1780 for a former Mayor of Rochester, Thomas Stephens, opposite the present Sir John Falstaff Public House. Gad's Hill is where Falstaff commits the robbery that begins Shakespeare's Henriad trilogy (Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V). Charles Dickens first saw the mansion when he was 9 years old"
"in which it is situated. Charles Dickens spent summer holidays at Fort House in the 1850s and 1860s and it was there in that ""airy nest"" above the harbour that he wrote ""David Copperfield"". Fort House was dubbed Bleak House in the early part of the 20th century. Somebody asserted that it was the Bleak House referred to in Dickens' 1853 novel, and the name stuck. There has been much dispute over the truth of the claim. Some people believe that the house from which Dickens took his inspiration is far distant from Broadstairs. What can be certain is that"
"autumn of 1851, Charles Dickens obtained the lease on Tavistock House from his friend and fellow Shakespeare Society member, the artist Frank Stone. In 1851 Dickens, with his young family, moved into the western section of the by now divided Tavistock House. His first published story, ""A Dinner at Poplar Walk"" (1833) (later re-titled ""Mr. Minns and His Cousin"") is set in Tavistock House. Dickens wrote ""Bleak House"" (1852-3), ""Hard Times"" (1854), ""Little Dorrit"" (1855-7), and ""A Tale of Two Cities"" (1859) at Tavistock House. He also put on amateur theatricals there which are described in John Forster's ""Life of"
"also displayed at the museum. This is his Court Suit and sword, worn when Dickens was presented to the Prince of Wales in 1870. Charles Dickens Museum The Charles Dickens Museum is an author's house museum at 48 Doughty Street in Holborn, London Borough of Camden. It occupies a typical Georgian terraced house which was Charles Dickens's home from 25 March 1837 (a year after his marriage) to December 1839. Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine Dickens (née Hogarth) lived here with the eldest three of their ten children, with the older two of Dickens's daughters, Mary Dickens and Kate"
"Charles Dickens when Mary was aged 14, on Dickens' first visit to the Hogarth household in Brompton, London. Whilst Dickens and Catherine were courting, Mary was a constant companion and chaperone to both of them. After Charles and Catherine Dickens married in 1836, Hogarth lived with them for a month in a three bedroom apartment at the Furnival's Inn in Holborn, London. From March 1837, Hogarth lived with the couple at 48 Doughty Street, where she helped her sister with household chores, as Catherine was pregnant with her first child. Hogarth was described by those who knew her as ""sweet,"
"Eastgate House, Rochester Eastgate House is a Grade I listed Elizabethan townhouse in Rochester, Kent, England. It is notable for its association with author Charles Dickens, featuring as Westgate in ""The Pickwick Papers"" and as the Nun's House in ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"". Now a Dickens Museum, the grounds of Eastgate House contain the Swiss chalet in which Dickens penned several of his novels. It was built in the 1590s for Sir Peter Buck, Mayor of Medway and Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham Dockyard. The house then became home to five generations of his family. In 1687, the"
"is so far from the location of the fictional house. The house is on top of the cliff on Fort Road, and was renamed Bleak House after his death, in his honour. It is the only four storey grade II listed mansion in Broadstairs. Dickens locates the fictional Bleak House in St Albans, Hertfordshire, where he wrote some of the book. An 18th-century house in Folly Lane, St Albans, has been identified as a possible inspiration for the titular house in the story since the time of the book's publication and was known as Bleak House for many years. In"
"Bleak House Bleak House is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and the story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of ""Bleak House"" is a long-running legal case, ""Jarndyce and Jarndyce"", which came about because someone wrote several conflicting wills. Dickens uses this case to satirise the English judicial system. Though the legal profession criticised Dickens' satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement, which"
"Tavistock House Tavistock House was the London home of the noted British author Charles Dickens and his family from 1851 to 1860. At Tavistock House Dickens wrote ""Bleak House"", ""Hard Times"", ""Little Dorrit"" and ""A Tale of Two Cities"". He also put on amateur theatricals there which are described in John Forster's ""Life of Charles Dickens"". Later, it was the home of William and Georgina Weldon, whose lodger was the French composer Charles Gounod, who composed part of his opera ""Polyeucte"" at the house. Tavistock House was demolished in 1901. Tavistock House was built by builder and developer James Burton,"
"the house held a special attraction for Dickens, and was the residence he ""most desired"" in his most favourite of watering places, Broadstairs. In the novel ""Sophy Laurie"", published in 1865, William Carew Hazlitt writes: ""It is at Broadstairs they are staying; in the big, bleak house that stands alone on a peak of the chalk cliff, as if it were some sentinel set over the rovers up and down the sea."" For much of the 20th century, Bleak House was in two quite distinct parts, serving as both a private residence and a Dickens memorial museum. In 2012 the"
"that the nineteenth century additions were made at the back of the House. Research published in ""The Dickensian"" in 1963 suggests that the rooms and gardens of the House of St Barnabas were the blueprint for the imagined lodgings of Dr. Manette and Lucy in the novel ""A Tale of Two Cities"" by Charles Dickens, published in 1859 and set between the turmoil of Paris during the French Revolution and the comparative tranquillity of London. Subsequently the road on which is the Chapel entrance was renamed Manette Street. ""In a building at the back, attainable by a courtyard where a"
"Rochester Castle. There are however a few areas where the plot differs from accepted historical narrative. The historic city was for many years the favourite of Charles Dickens, who lived within the diocese at nearby Gads Hill Place, Higham, many of his novels being based on the area. Descriptions of the town appear in ""Pickwick Papers"", ""Great Expectations"" and (lightly fictionalised as ""Cloisterham"") in ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"". Elements of two houses in Rochester, Satis House and Restoration House, are used for Miss Havisham's house in ""Great Expectations"", Satis House. The actress Dame Sybil Thorndike and her brother Russell"
"""The Western Canon"", considers ""Bleak House"" to be Dickens's greatest novel. Daniel Burt, in his book ""The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time"", ranks ""Bleak House"" number 12. Horror and supernatural fiction author Stephen King named it among his top 10 favourite books. The house named Bleak House in Broadstairs, is not the original. Dickens stayed with his family at this house (then called Fort House), for at least one month every summer from 1839 until 1851. However, there is no evidence that it formed the basis of the fictional Bleak House, particularly as it"
"stopped loving her. After hesitating, she embraces him and they leave the house together. Restoration House in Rochester was Dickens' inspiration for ""Satis House"", the decaying mansion of Miss Havisham. The production reproduced Restoration House in Denham Film Studios in Buckinghamshire. Dickens based Joe Gargery's house on the forge in the village of Chalk, near Gravesend, Kent – a replica was erected on St Mary's Marshes on the Thames Estuary. Pip and Herbert Pocket arrange to meet Magwitch and help him escape at Chatham Docks where slip 8 was used for the scene as well as exterior shots of the"
"Lane to St Chad's Lane and northward"". In the 1920s, Sir Guy Dawber designed the gardens, annexe building and cottage of the property. Eastgate House, Rochester Eastgate House is a Grade I listed Elizabethan townhouse in Rochester, Kent, England. It is notable for its association with author Charles Dickens, featuring as Westgate in ""The Pickwick Papers"" and as the Nun's House in ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"". Now a Dickens Museum, the grounds of Eastgate House contain the Swiss chalet in which Dickens penned several of his novels. It was built in the 1590s for Sir Peter Buck, Mayor of"
"Cities"", ""Great Expectations"", ""Our Mutual Friend"" and the unfinished ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"". The chalet has been preserved and was moved to the 'Dickens Centre' in Rochester High Street, Rochester, as a memorial to the writer. The house remained Dickens's country home until his death in 1870, dying as he did of a stroke on a couch in the dining room there. Much of the contents of the house was auctioned after his death. Gads Hill Place was bought by Charles Dickens, Jr. after his father's death, but he was forced to give it up in 1879 because of"
"Charles Dickens Museum The Charles Dickens Museum is an author's house museum at 48 Doughty Street in Holborn, London Borough of Camden. It occupies a typical Georgian terraced house which was Charles Dickens's home from 25 March 1837 (a year after his marriage) to December 1839. Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine Dickens (née Hogarth) lived here with the eldest three of their ten children, with the older two of Dickens's daughters, Mary Dickens and Kate Macready Dickens being born in the house. A new addition to the household was Dickens's younger brother Frederick. Also, Catherine's 17-year-old sister Mary moved"
"his wife in Paris. Feeling slighted by Gounod's departure, Georgina Weldon refused to send on his personal belongings, including the draft of his opera ""Polyeucte"", forcing him to rewrite it. Tavistock House was demolished in 1901, and its former location is covered today by the headquarters of the British Medical Association in Tavistock Square. A blue plaque commemorates Charles Dickens and Tavistock House. Tavistock House Tavistock House was the London home of the noted British author Charles Dickens and his family from 1851 to 1860. At Tavistock House Dickens wrote ""Bleak House"", ""Hard Times"", ""Little Dorrit"" and ""A Tale of"
"is a Grade I listed building. Gads Hill Place Gads Hill Place in Higham, Kent, sometimes spelt Gadshill Place and Gad's Hill Place, was the country home of Charles Dickens, the most successful British author of the Victorian era. Today the building is the independent Gad's Hill School. The house was built in 1780 for a former Mayor of Rochester, Thomas Stephens, opposite the present Sir John Falstaff Public House. Gad's Hill is where Falstaff commits the robbery that begins Shakespeare's Henriad trilogy (Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V). Charles Dickens first saw the mansion"
"in Somerset House. John Dickens found it difficult to provide for his growing family on his meagre income. Soon his debts had become so severe that all the household goods were sold in an attempt to pay his bills, including furniture and silverware. He had a previous wife before his Elizabeth, he had ten children in all and his oldest was Frances Dickens whilst his oldest son was Charles Dickens. John's debts became too much and he was put in a prison for debtors. This predicament caused Charles to leave school at the age of twelve to work in a"
"The Kilns The Kilns, also known as C. S. Lewis House, is the house on the outskirts of Headington Quarry (where Lewis is buried at Holy Trinity Church) in the village of Risinghurst, Oxford, England, where the author C. S. Lewis wrote all of his Narnia books and other classics. The house itself was featured in the Narnia books. Lewis's gardener at The Kilns, Fred Paxford, is said to have inspired the character of Puddleglum the Marshwiggle in ""The Silver Chair"". The Kilns was built in 1922 on the site of a former brickworks. The lake in the garden is"
"The Kilns The Kilns, also known as C. S. Lewis House, is the house on the outskirts of Headington Quarry (where Lewis is buried at Holy Trinity Church) in the village of Risinghurst, Oxford, England, where the author C. S. Lewis wrote all of his Narnia books and other classics. The house itself was featured in the Narnia books. Lewis's gardener at The Kilns, Fred Paxford, is said to have inspired the character of Puddleglum the Marshwiggle in ""The Silver Chair"". The Kilns was built in 1922 on the site of a former brickworks. The lake in the garden is"
"Childe, a citizen of London, in the year 1081."""" Charles Dickens set portions of his novel Oliver Twist in the area of Shad Thames, at a time when it was an area of notorious poverty known as Jacob's Island. He set Bill Sikes's den at the east of Shad Thames in buildings adjacent to St Saviour's Dock. It is here that Sykes falls from a roof and dies in the mud, probably of St Saviour's Dock. Dickens gives us a vivid description of what this unsavoury place must have looked like at the time of the novel, St Saviour's dock"
"suppose."" Thirty-five years later, after Dickens had risen to fame and wealth, he discovered that the house was for sale and bought it for £1790 in March 1856 from fellow writer Eliza Lynn (later known as novelist Mrs. Eliza Lynn Linton). Initially Dickens bought the house as an investment, intending to let it, but changed his mind and used it instead as a country retreat, moving into the house in June 1857. Dickens had bookshelves installed in his study at Gads Hill Place, some of which contained dummy books the titles of which he invented to reflect his own prejudices"
"a house in London, along with their young children, which include at least three girls (Little Agnes, Dora, and Betsey Trotwood Copperfield) and at least two boys. They live in a wealthy lifestyle on David's successful writing career. David and Agnes prove to be a perfect match, and in this marriage David ultimately finds true happiness. David Copperfield (character) David Copperfield, Jr. is the protagonist after which the 1850 Charles Dickens novel, ""David Copperfield"", was named. The character is widely thought to be based on Dickens himself, incorporating many elements of his own life. Scholars believe that David Copperfield's childhood,"
"feminine. Dickens also sat for a bust by Henry Dexter. (There are copies of the bust in the Charles Dickens Museum in London and the Philadelphia Free Library’s Rare Book Department) The original bust is now lost. Miriam also sits for a bust by a young sculptor from Boston, Kalman Gacs. Dickens stayed at the Tremont House (Boston) in 1842, but by the time he returned in 1868, it “has now become contemptable.” Miriam stays at the Omni Parker House. Dickens stayed there for his second visit, when it was just called the Parker House. Miriam says it was noted"
"treats everyone with kindness, generosity and compassion, embodying the spirit of Christmas. The writer Charles Dickens was born to a middle class family which got into financial difficulties as a result of the spendthrift nature of his father John. In 1824 John was committed to the Marshalsea, a debtors' prison in Southwark, London. Dickens, aged 12, was forced to pawn his collection of books, leave school and work at a dirty and rat-infested shoe-blacking factory. The change in circumstances gave him what his biographer, Michael Slater, describes as a ""deep personal and social outrage"", which heavily influenced his writing and"
"by the London County Council that ""George's Yard"", in Bermondsey, should be renamed ""Twist's Court"", to reflect the site of the demise of the Dickens' character Bill Sikes. Nine years later, G.W. Mitchell, a clerk with the Bermondsey Council found a plan dated 5 April 1855, in the London County Council archives, which showed 'Bill Sykes' house' marked on Jacob's Island. This was at a time when the London County Council was proposing that Jacob's Island should be 'demolished'. The following year, it was noted that 'so accurately' did Dickens' 'describe the scene that the house that he chose for"
"The Last Dickens The Last Dickens is a novel by Matthew Pearl published by Random House. It is a work of historical and literary fiction. The novel is a Washington Post Critics' Pick. It contains some characters from ""The Dante Club"". The novel is set in the United States, England, and India in 1867 and 1870. When news of Charles Dickens’s untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James R. Osgood sends his trusted clerk Daniel Sand to await Dickens’s unfinished last novel – ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"". But when Daniel’s body"
"Navy Pay Office and was temporarily stationed in the district. He asked Christopher Huffam, rigger to His Majesty's Navy, gentleman, and head of an established firm, to act as godfather to Charles. Huffam is thought to be the inspiration for Paul Dombey, the owner of a shipping company in Dickens's novel ""Dombey and Son"" (1848). In January 1815, John Dickens was called back to London, and the family moved to Norfolk Street, Fitzrovia. When Charles was four, they relocated to Sheerness, and thence to Chatham, Kent, where he spent his formative years until the age of 11. His early life"
"a reference to a ""knowing man"", a possible sketch of Bentley Drummle. Another evokes a house full of ""Toadies and Humbugs"", foreshadowing the visitors to Satis House in chapter 11. Margaret Cardwell discovered the ""premonition"" of ""Great Expectations"" from a 25 September 1855 letter from Dickens to W. H. Wills, in which Dickens speaks of recycling an ""odd idea"" from the Christmas special ""A House to Let"" and ""the pivot round which my next book shall revolve."" The ""odd idea"" concerns an individual who ""retires to an old lonely house…resolved to shut out the world and hold no communion with"