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قراءة كتاب Dickens-Land
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Transcriber's note
In the HTML version some of the illustrations have been moved beside the relevant section of the text. Page numbers in the List of Illustrations reflect the position of the illustration in the original text, but links link to current position of illustrations.
Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. A printer error has been changed, and it is indicated with a mouse-hover and listed at the end of this book. All other inconsistencies are as in the original.
CHALK, HOUSE WHERE DICKENS SPENT HIS HONEYMOONDICKENS-LAND
Described by J. A. NICKLIN
Pictured by E. W. HASLEHUST
BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON
GLASGOW AND BOMBAY
1911
Beautiful England
Volumes Ready
| Oxford | The Heart of Wessex | |
| The English Lakes | The Peak District | |
| Canterbury | The Cornish Riviera | |
| Shakespeare-Land | Dickens-Land | |
| The Thames | Winchester | |
| Windsor Castle | The Isle of Wight | |
| Cambridge | Chester and the Dee | |
| Norwich and the Broads | York |
Uniform with this Series
Beautiful Ireland
| LEINSTER | MUNSTER | |
| ULSTER | ULSTER |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Page | ||
| Chalk, House where Dickens spent his honeymoon | Frontispiece | |
| Gadshill Place from the Gardens | 8 | |
| Rochester from Strood | 14 | |
| Restoration House, Rochester | 20 | |
| Cobham Park | 26 | |
| Cooling Church | 32 | |
| Aylesford | 38 | |
| Maidstone, All Saints' Church and the Palace | 42 | |
| Jasper's Gateway | 46 | |
| Chalk Church | 50 | |
| Shorne Church | 54 | |
| The Leather Bottle, Cobham | 58 | |
The central shrine of a literary cult is at least as often its hero's home of adoption as his place of birth. To the Wordsworthian, Cockermouth has but a faint, remote interest in comparison with Grasmere and Rydal Mount. Edinburgh, for all its associations with the life and the genius of Scott, is not as Abbotsford, or as that beloved Border country in which his memory has struck its deepest roots. And so it is with Dickens. The accident of birth attaches his name but slightly to Landport in South-sea. The Dickens pilgrim treads in the most palpable footsteps of "Boz" amongst the landmarks of a Victorian London, too rapidly disappearing, and through the "rich and varied landscape" on either side of the Medway, "covered with cornfields and pastures, with here and there a windmill or a distant church", which Dickens loved from boyhood, peopled with the creatures of his teeming fancy, and chose for his last and most-cherished habitation.
What Abbotsford was to Scott, that, almost, to Dickens in his later years was Gadshill Place. From his study window in the "grave red-brick house" "on his little Kentish freehold"—a house which he had "added to and stuck bits upon in all manner of ways, so that it was as pleasantly irregular and as