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A few notes about Dickens and Kent:
DICKENS in Dover -
See Dover Express 26.9.1913 p.5 cols 2, and 3
Also see Dov/Exp 10 Oct 1913, p.5 col.1
"Betsy Trotwood" cottage (Dover Express 3 Oct 1913?)
Charles DICKENS:
(And below, this letter from Basil SQUIER)
"Another correspondent, writing of Snargate Street, says we forgot to recall that Charles DICKENS gave one of his public readings at the Wellington Hall. This is, however, not so. The reading he gave at Dover was on November 5th 1861, at the Apollonian Hall, ,which was in the part of Snargate Street pulled down in 1930 to widen Commercial Quay. Describing his readings in a letter to his daughter, DICKENS said: 'The effect of the readings at Hastings and Dover really seems to have outdone the best usual impression, and at Dover they wouldn't go, but sat applauding like mad. The most delicate audience I have ever seen in any provincial place is at Canterbury, an intelligent and delightful response in them like the touch of a beautiful instrument, but the audience with the greatest sense of humour certainly is at Dover. The people in the stalls set the example of laughing, in the most curiously unreserved way, and they laughed with such really cordial enjoyment, when SQUEERS read the boys' letters, that the contagion extended to me. For one couldn't hear them without laughing too."
(Dover Express 13 Aug 1948)
Charles DICKENS, a passenger on train, escaped injury in railway accident at Staplehurst in which 10 were killed
9 June 1865 ("Kent" County History Vol.1)
Charles DICKENS, novelist, death at Gad's Hill 9 June 1870
("Kent" County History Vol.1)
Charles DICKENS - the grave of his dog Mrs Bouncer - 1874 at Higham + more detail
(Mee's "Kent" page 239)
"A concert at Russell Street Schoolrooms, Dover, included: "Mr IGGLESDEN dramatic recitations (Dickens etc.), Miss ELGAR, Messrs. A. BUCKMAN Jnr. and R. AKHURST (violin and piano duet)
(Dover Telegraph Feb 19 1896)