THE VERY DICKENS!
For twenty-five years Dickens pilgrims to the Kent village of Chalk have gazed reverently at the wrong cottage. This is revealed b-' a letter. Dickens was believed to have lived in Craddock’s Cottage. Gravesend Dickensians bad affixed to it a plaque of Dickens’ head, with the dates of his birth aild death and the words: "Spent bis honeymoon in this house (1836).” A letter in Dickens’ own bandwriting now proves that lie took his bride, Catherine Hogarth, to Nash’s Cottage, across the village street from Craddock’s Cottage,. The landlord of the house with the plaque is determined to retain it. Dickensians are equally determined that Nash’s cottage shall bear a record. So in this centenary year of Dickens—he was married in April, two days after publication of “Pickwick”—Chalk will probably have two heads of the author facing each other across the street.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 23 May 1936, Page 11
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145THE VERY DICKENS! Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 23 May 1936, Page 11
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