Which Charles Dickens character lived in Satis House?
"in Satis house in 1794. The house has been rebuilt and is now the administration building for The King's School, Rochester. A bust of Watts has been set on top of the building's portico. Although Charles Dickens in his novel Great Expectations used the name Satis House for Miss Havisham's house, his biographer, John Forster, felt that some aspects of the fictitious Satis House were modelled on nearby Restoration House. Richard Watts Richard Watts (1529–1579) was a successful businessman and MP for Rochester, South East England, in the 1570s. He supplied rations for the English Navy as deputy victualler and"
"Satis House Satis House is a fictional estate in the Charles Dickens novel ""Great Expectations. The name ""Satis House"" comes from the Latin """" for 'enough', and is the name of a real mansion in Rochester, Kent, near where Dickens lived. It gained its name from a comment by Queen Elizabeth I who stayed there as a guest of the owner, Richard Watts. As she left, Watts asked his queen if she had been comfortable during her stay. Offhandedly, she replied: ""Satis"". According to Dickens' biographer John Forster, the novelist also used aspects of the nearby Restoration House. The character"
"Crow Lane became known as Restoration House. It is reputed to be the basis of Satis House in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. There actually is a Satis House nearby, once the home of Richard Watts. Elizabeth I stayed there as a guest and on being asked if she was comfortable replied ""satis"" (enough). Pepys visited Restoration House in 1667 and noted: ""...a fine walk, and there saw Sir F Clerke's house which is a pretty seat, and into the cherry garden..."". Shortly after the restoration, Samuel Pepys visited Rochester Cathedral on his way between the London and Chatham dockyards."
"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,"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"of the former Jacob's Island. The houses of the development were named after Dickens' characters but the only one to have lived, and died, on Jacob's Island, the murderous Bill Sikes, was not honoured. Jacob's Island was immortalised by Charles Dickens's novel ""Oliver Twist"", in which the principal villain Bill Sikes dies in the mud of 'Folly Ditch'. Dickens provides a vivid description of what it was like: ""... crazy wooden galleries common to the backs of half a dozen houses, with holes from which to look upon the slime beneath; windows, broken and patched, with poles thrust out, on"
"Watts who had entertained Queen Elizabeth there in 1753: asked for her verdict on her stay, the Queen had answered, ‘satis’, hence the name of the house. Above the entrance portico is a 1578 bust of Watts who represented Rochester in Parliament between 1563 and 1571. At Satis House are the office of The Principal of King's Rochester, administrative offices and the Senior School Library. Main School The oldest building in use which was specifically built for the School. It was completed in 1742, the tower and additional classrooms were added in 1880 and the building extended with porches either"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Richard Watts Richard Watts (1529–1579) was a successful businessman and MP for Rochester, South East England, in the 1570s. He supplied rations for the English Navy as deputy victualler and supervised the construction of Upnor Castle. After Queen Elizabeth I pronounced his house was ""satis"" (Latin for enough) after a visit in 1573, the house was thereafter known as Satis House. Famed locally for his philanthropy, he died on 10 September 1579, leaving money in his will to establish the Richard Watts Charity and Six Poor Travellers House in Rochester High Street. He is buried, in accordance with his will,"
"of the first female Justice of the Peace. A noted horsewoman, the site of her former stables is now occupied, in part, by Sinclair House.She spent much of the winters abroad and her house was let in her absence. One of the many long standing residents was the Revd. Alfred Ainger, biographer of Charles Lamb and friend of Dickens, who resided here each year for the duration of his turn as residentiary canon of Bristol Cathedral, together with his niece and their dog. Sinclair House was built partly on the site of Holland Cottage which were destroyed during the German"
"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"
"Dirty Dick Nathaniel Bentley (–1809), commonly known as Dirty Dick, was an 18th-century merchant who owned a hardware shop and warehouse in London, and is one person who is considered as a possible inspiration for Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' ""Great Expectations"" after he refused to wash following the death of his fiancée on their wedding day. He was a previous owner of a pub on Bishopsgate, in the City of London, which is named after him. Bentley had been quite a dandy in his youth, but following the death of his fiancée on their wedding day he refused to"
"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"
"Little Dorrit's Playground Little Dorrit's Playground, named after Little Dorrit, the eponymous Charles Dickens character, is a public playground and small park just north of Marshalsea Road in Southwark, south London, England. The site was previously called Falcon Court, ""a horrible rookery of tumble-down, dirty hovels."" In 1902, a small public open space called Little Dorrit's Playground was opened north of Marshalsea Road. The surrounding area has many Dickensian associations. Charles Dickens himself had lodgings in Lant Street to the south of Marsalsea Road as a child when his father is in the Marshalsea debtors' prison nearby in 1824. This"
"Gad's Hill School Gad's Hill School in Kent, England, was formerly Gads Hill Place, the country home of Charles Dickens. It became an independent school for day pupils in 1924. Charles Dickens died in what is now the school's dining room. Cedric Charles Dickens, the author's great-grandson, was a governor of the school until his death in 2006. Marion Dickens, the author's great-great-granddaughter, is a former pupil of the school and, as of 2018, is a Director of the school company. As of 2013, the school was moving into purpose-built buildings in the grounds of the house. As of 2018,"
"Royal David's City"". Gad's Hill School Gad's Hill School in Kent, England, was formerly Gads Hill Place, the country home of Charles Dickens. It became an independent school for day pupils in 1924. Charles Dickens died in what is now the school's dining room. Cedric Charles Dickens, the author's great-grandson, was a governor of the school until his death in 2006. Marion Dickens, the author's great-great-granddaughter, is a former pupil of the school and, as of 2018, is a Director of the school company. As of 2013, the school was moving into purpose-built buildings in the grounds of the house."
"Long Lane (Southwark) Long Lane is a major road in Southwark, south London, England. At the northwest end is a complicated junction with Borough High Street, Marshalsea Road, Tabard Street, and Great Dover Street. The historic St George the Martyr church, with Dickensian connections, is at this junction, now standing on an island surrounded by roads and cut off from its original churchyard. In this church the eponymous Dickens character Little Dorrit was baptised and married. Charles Dickens himself lodged close by as a child in Lant Street when his father was in the Marshalsea debtors' prison during 1824. It"
"the piano, and Bing and Bowie chat about their musical tastes before singing a duet of ""Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy"". Kathyrn chats with Mrs. Bridges in the kitchen as the children continue looking for written proof of their relation to Sir Percy. Meanwhile, in the library, Bing is surprised to encounter the house's former owner, Charles Dickens, played by Ron Moody. They are soon joined by Twiggy, who comments on Dickens' wide array of memorable characters and several of Dickens' heroes and villains including Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim (from ""A Christmas Carol""), Fagin and The Artful Dodger (from"
"practice at the time. Charles, then 12 years old, boarded with Elizabeth Roylance, a family friend, at 112 College Place, Camden Town. Roylance was ""a reduced [impoverished] old lady, long known to our family"", whom Dickens later immortalised, ""with a few alterations and embellishments"", as ""Mrs. Pipchin"" in ""Dombey and Son"". Later, he lived in a back-attic in the house of an agent for the Insolvent Court, Archibald Russell, ""a fat, good-natured, kind old gentleman... with a quiet old wife"" and lame son, in Lant Street in Southwark. They provided the inspiration for the Garlands in ""The Old Curiosity Shop""."
"the Pocket family, much less Jaggers's circle. London has become Pip's prison and, like the convicts of his youth, he is bound in chains: ""no Satis House can be built merely with money"". The idea of ""good breeding"" and what makes for a ""gentleman"" other than money. in other words ""gentility"", is a central theme of ""Great Expectations"". The convict Magwitch covets it by proxy through Pip; Mrs Pocket dreams of acquiring it; it is also found in Pumblechook's sycophancy; it is even seen in Joe, when he stammers between ""Pip"" and ""Sir"" during his visit to London, and when"
"of Marshalsea Road, Little Dorrit's Court, also named after the Dickens character, can be found as well. Little Dorrit's Playground Little Dorrit's Playground, named after Little Dorrit, the eponymous Charles Dickens character, is a public playground and small park just north of Marshalsea Road in Southwark, south London, England. The site was previously called Falcon Court, ""a horrible rookery of tumble-down, dirty hovels."" In 1902, a small public open space called Little Dorrit's Playground was opened north of Marshalsea Road. The surrounding area has many Dickensian associations. Charles Dickens himself had lodgings in Lant Street to the south of Marsalsea"
"in 1821, when his father John Dickens told Charles that if he worked hard enough, one day he would own it or just such a house. As a boy, Charles Dickens would often walk from Chatham to Gads Hill Place as he wished to see it again and again as an image of his possible future. Dickens was later to write, "" I used to look at it as a wonderful Mansion (which God knows it is not) when I was a very odd little child with the first faint shadows of all my books in my head - I"
"reclusive Miss Havisham in her decaying mansion, wearing her tattered bridal robes. ""Great Expectations"" incorporates elements of the new genre of crime fiction, which Dickens had already used in ""Oliver Twist"" (1837), and which was being developed by his friends Wilkie Collins and William Harrison Ainsworth. With its scenes of convicts, prison ships, and episodes of bloody violence, Dickens creates characters worthy of the Newgate school of fiction. ""Great Expectations"" contains elements of the Gothic genre, especially with Miss Havisham, the bride frozen in time, and the ruins of Satis House filled with weeds and spiders. Other characters that can"
"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"
"Pinch from ""Martin Chuzzlewit""; Lilian, the child who appears in Trotty Veck's visions in ""The Chimes""; and Dot Peerybingle, the sister in ""The Cricket on the Hearth"". Unlike Hogarth, Dickens' wife Catherine does not appear to have been the inspiration for any of his characters. Mary Hogarth Mary Scott Hogarth (26 October 1819 – 7 May 1837) was the sister of Catherine Dickens ( Hogarth) and the sister-in-law of Charles Dickens. Hogarth first met Charles Dickens aged 14, and after Dickens married Hogarth's sister Catherine, Mary lived with the couple for a year. Hogarth died suddenly in 1837, which caused"