![]() ![]() ![]() The exhibition room features a display on Charles Dickens and Portsmouth, as well as a small collection of memorabilia: the couch on which he died at his house in Kent, together with his snuff box, inkwell and paper knife, poignant reminders of an author celebrated for his prodigious talents and creative output. His family moved into the house a year later. Dickens immediately set about a programme of improvements and repairs. In March 1856 Charles Dickens paid £1,790 to buy it from Mrs Lynn Linton, with 26 acres of land, including a large shrubbery across the road. There are three furnished rooms: the parlour, the dining room and the bedroom where Charles was born, all with furniture, ceramics, glass, household objects and decorations faithfully in re-created the Regency style which Charles’s parents would have favoured. Gad’s Hill Place was built in 1780 for a former Mayor of Rochester, Thomas Stephens. Charles’s father, John Dickens, a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, had brought his young bride Elizabeth down to Portsmouth in the summer of 1809, renting the house as the first home of their married life. ![]() The Charles Dickens’ Birthplace Museum offers visitors the chance to visit the Portsmouth house where Charles Dickens was born on 7th February 1812.ĭuring this time, Britain’s Navy was still at war with Napoleonic France. ![]()
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