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Tokens of affection were exchanged with sister-in-law whose early death influenced the authorâs work
A heart-shaped locket owned by Mary Hogarth, containing a lock of her brother-in-law Charles Dickensâs hair, and a silver locket, with moss agate stone, containing a lock of Hogarthâs hair given to Dickens by his mother-in-law in 1837. Photograph: Charles Dickens Museum collection
A heart-shaped locket owned by Mary Hogarth, containing a lock of her brother-in-law Charles Dickensâs hair, and a silver locket, with moss agate stone, containing a lock of Hogarthâs hair given to Dickens by his mother-in-law in 1837. Photograph: Charles Dickens Museum collection
The day Charles Dickens nearly died in horrific Staplehurst rail disaster
Dickens spent his formative years in Chatham and holidayed in Broadstairs and Folkestone
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Staplehurst rail crash engraving in London Illustrated News (Image: Public domain)
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If you speak to anyone from Kent about the county’s legacy, one of the first things they’ll tell you is that it was home to the great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens.