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Author Charles Dickens
Genres Prose: Leading Article i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects Great Britain—Description and Travel
Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Popular Culture; Amusements
Ships; Boats; Shipwrecks; Salvage; Merchant Marine; Sailors; Sailing; Submarines (Ships)
Sports; Games; Leisure; Pleasure; Hunting; Horse Racing; Gambling; Duelling
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Dickens had been taking his family for a summer holiday to Broadstairs, on the east coast of Kent, every year since 1837 apart from 1844 and 1846. Originally a small fishing village, Broadstairs was made fashionable by the Duchess of Kent, who 'visited it every summer for years, coming in with the strawberries and going out with the blackberries' (The Illustrated Times, 29 August 1857, p. 154). When she tired of it, The Illustrated Times added, 'Mr Dickens took it up and fondled it for a time'.

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Author Richard H. Horne
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Crime; Criminals; Punishment; Capital Punishment; Prisons; Penal Transportation; Penal Colonies
Dreams; Visions; Sleep
Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (1851)
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Arcadia

2/8/1851

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Author Richard H. Horne
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Civilization—Classical
Nature; Nature (Aesthetics); Nature in Literature; Landscapes
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Author Henry Morley
Subjects Architecture; Building; Housing; Property; Landlord and Tenant;
Health; Diseases; Personal Injuries; Hygiene; Cleanliness—Fiction
Life Sciences (Physiology / Biology / Immunology / Medicine / Pharmacology / Anatomy / Ecology)
Medical care; Nursing; Hospitals; Hospital Care; Surgery; Medicine; Physicians
Public Health; Sanitation; Water
Science; Science—History; Technology; Technological innovations; Discoveries in Science
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Authors Anna Sophia Grey
W[illiam] H[enry] Wills
Genres Prose: Letters; Correspondence i
Prose: Snippet i
Subjects Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Gardening; Horticulture
Ireland—Description and Travel
Ireland—Social Conditions
National Characteristics; Nationalism
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—Catholic Church
Religion—Christianity—General
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Chips: Chamouny

2/8/1851

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Author William Brockedon
Genres Prose: Snippet i
Prose: Travel-writing i
Subjects France—Description and Travel
Sports; Games; Leisure; Pleasure; Hunting; Horse Racing; Gambling; Duelling
Travel; Tourism; Hotels; Resorts; Seaside Resorts—Fiction; Passports;
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Authors [?] Keys
Henry Morley
[?] Soutar
Genres Prose: Digest; Review i
Prose: Essay i
Subjects Asia—Description and Travel
Asia—History
Race; Racism; Ethnicity; Anthropology; Ethnography
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Judaism
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2/8/1851

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