Monday, September 9, 2013

Charles Dickens' Home To Open To The Public

 

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The former Kent home of Charles Dickens will be opened to the public for the first time since his death in 1870, it has been announced.

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Gad's Hill Place in Higham has been used as a school since the 1920s but pupils are moving into new buildings.

Dickens penned classic novels such as Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities during his time in the Grade I listed Georgian property.

The Portsmouth-born author's great great granddaughter, Marion Dickens, said she hoped that by turning Dickens' house into a visitor attraction "people that love his books will be able to walk in through his door [and] feel that same magic that actually I always feel."

She said Gad's Hill was "where he wrote, where he lived, where he threw wonderful parties, [and] where his children were brought up".

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