{"id":1160,"date":"2020-01-09T15:56:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T15:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2020-01-09T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T15:56:30","slug":"charles-dickens-broadstairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/charles-dickens-broadstairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Dickens’ Broadstairs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Broadstairs inspired the novelist Charles Dickens.\u00a0 He visited regularly between 1837 \u2013 1859. \u00a0Charles Dickens had a summer residence in Broadstairs, now known as Bleak House. \u00a0The house is currently a bed-and- breakfast and a wedding venue, but you can visit the room where he sat at his desk overlooking Viking Bay, which inspired him to write David Copperfield. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other novels Charles Dickens partly wrote whilst staying in Broadstairs include: Pickwick, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge , American Notes and The Haunted Man.\u00a0 Consequently, there is much reference to Charles Dickens in Broadstairs: The Old Curiosity Shop, Copperfields B&B, The Charles Dickens public house and the Charles Dickens School, to name just a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Located on the seafront is a lovely old cottage which is now\nthe home of the Charles Dickens Museum, full of memorabilia and pictures.  This building was once the home of Miss Mary\nPearson Strong, the inspiration for Miss Betsey Trotwood in David Copperfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Broadstairs is very proud of its association with the novelist Charles Dickens and each year in June the town hosts a Dickens Festival which includes musical entertainment and plays, a Dickensian beach party, Victorian Fair and lots more.\u00a0 This year\u2019s festival will take place 19 \u2013 21 June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Broadstairs inspired the novelist Charles Dickens.\u00a0 He visited regularly between 1837 \u2013 1859. \u00a0Charles Dickens had a summer residence in Broadstairs, now known as Bleak House. \u00a0The house is currently a bed-and- breakfast and a wedding venue, but you can visit the room where he sat at his desk overlooking Viking Bay, which inspired him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,122],"tags":[202,21,198,199,204,200,90,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}