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Gadshill Place
- Address: Gravesend Rd
Timeline
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1856/03/00 | Charles Dickens | Home | Charles Dickens buys Gads Hill Place for 1,790 Pounding Sterling from author Eliza Lynn. | |||
| 1857/06/00 | Charles Dickens | Home | The Dickens family begin using Gads Hill Place as their country seat. | |||
| 1857/07/00 | Hans Christian Andersen | Guest | Hans Christian Andersen visits Dickens at Gads Hill Place, invited for two weeks, Anderson left after five. Dickens wrote on the mirror in the guestroom: "Hans Andersen slept in this room for five weeks - which seemed to the family AGES!" | |||
| 1863/11/09 | Charles Dickens | Author | I send you ... an order ... for 12 Little Dorrits. Will you, with all convenient dispatch, half-bind 9 in my favorite red with gilt leaves, and bind the remaining 3 in any elegant and substantial way you like. - CD to Thomas Eeles, 22 Cursitor St (lost) | |||
| 1870/06/08 | Charles Dickens | Died | Charles Dickens dies of a stroke on a couch in the dining room of Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent. |
Places
| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
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| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
| Dickens Chalet |
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| English National Heritage List: | 1049037 |
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