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Dickens-Land
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I took him up in a moment, and we went on. Presently, the very queer small boy says, 'this is Gadshill we are coming to, where Falstaff went out to rob those travellers and ran away.'
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I took him up in a moment, and we went on. Presently, the very queer small boy says, 'this is Gadshill we are coming to, where Falstaff went out to rob those travellers and ran away.'
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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92 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1911
About the author
J.A. Nicklin
5 booksPoet and writer, John Arnold Nicklin (1871 -1917) was born in Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, Wales.
Nicklin was educated at Shrewsbury School before going up to St. John’s College, Cambridge to study Classics. He became a teacher and was Assistant Master at Liverpool College from 1896 – 1901 when the family lived in Toxteth on Merseyside. He wrote for “The Daily Chronicle” and “The Tribune” newspapers.
In 1903, John married Maria Louisa Petrie in London and they went to live in Lambeth, where John died on 16th April 1917.
John’s WW1 collection “And they went to the war: poems” was published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London in October 1914.
Nicklin was educated at Shrewsbury School before going up to St. John’s College, Cambridge to study Classics. He became a teacher and was Assistant Master at Liverpool College from 1896 – 1901 when the family lived in Toxteth on Merseyside. He wrote for “The Daily Chronicle” and “The Tribune” newspapers.
In 1903, John married Maria Louisa Petrie in London and they went to live in Lambeth, where John died on 16th April 1917.
John’s WW1 collection “And they went to the war: poems” was published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London in October 1914.
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January 23, 2010
Despite living for great periods in London, Dickens was 'A Man of Kent' and this book explores the locations in that county that he visited and that he used, under different names, in his novels.
His wanderings, he would sometimes walk 30 miles on a night when he could not sleep, around Kent are covered in detail with explanations as to how he disguised the locations for use in the novels. There is also much about his beloved Gad's Hill home, also in Kent.
On his last written page of Edwin Drood the day before he died he was recording the atmosphere of Rochester, where he really wished to be buried. But Westminster Abbey it was with a memorial tablet in Rochester Cathedral, "in which his earliest and his latest years were passed".
His wanderings, he would sometimes walk 30 miles on a night when he could not sleep, around Kent are covered in detail with explanations as to how he disguised the locations for use in the novels. There is also much about his beloved Gad's Hill home, also in Kent.
On his last written page of Edwin Drood the day before he died he was recording the atmosphere of Rochester, where he really wished to be buried. But Westminster Abbey it was with a memorial tablet in Rochester Cathedral, "in which his earliest and his latest years were passed".
July 15, 2013
Dickens-Land by J. A. Nicklin
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summer 2013
pub 1911
art-forms
dickensphernalia
recco from Gerry and Laura
mega short at 64 pages
CHALK, HOUSE WHERE DICKENS SPENT HIS HONEYMOON
opening: 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.
ebook>gutenberg> http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27572/...
summer 2013
pub 1911
art-forms
dickensphernalia
recco from Gerry and Laura
mega short at 64 pages
CHALK, HOUSE WHERE DICKENS SPENT HIS HONEYMOONopening: 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.
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