. Charles Dickens and Rochester. ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL AND CASTLE FROM STROOD. CHARLES DICKENS AND ROCHESTER BY ROBERT LANGTON. has no doubt been observed by all carefulreaders of the works of Charles Dickenshow very frequently in his earliest andhis latest books he introduces the city ofRochester as the scene of portions of hisstories. I now propose to bring together suchreferences to this locality as are to befound in the entire works of Dickens, andwhere possible, to let the great master himself do the descriptivepart in his own language. In adding some explanatory notes of my own, I may say
. Charles Dickens and Rochester. ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL AND CASTLE FROM STROOD. CHARLES DICKENS AND ROCHESTER BY ROBERT LANGTON. has no doubt been observed by all carefulreaders of the works of Charles Dickenshow very frequently in his earliest andhis latest books he introduces the city ofRochester as the scene of portions of hisstories. I now propose to bring together suchreferences to this locality as are to befound in the entire works of Dickens, andwhere possible, to let the great master himself do the descriptivepart in his own language. In adding some explanatory notes of my own, I may say that,having passed perhaps the most impressionable part of my child-hood at a school in Rochester, and having been familiar with theneighbourhood all through my life, I am able to testify to thewonderful accuracy and realism of the many sketches of life andscene in that part of Kent, which are to be found in some of theworks of Charles CHARLES DICKENS AND ROCHESTER. Though not a man of Kent by birth, Charles Dickens \^as atthe tender age of four years removed with his fathers family toChatham, where they lived near the parish church of St. truly says that the associations that were around himwhen he died were those which, at the outset of his life, hadaffected him most strongly. He was, we are told, a very small boy for his age, and verydelicate, insomuch that he could not engage in the ordinary sportsof boys, but sat apart and watched them at their play, or readsuch works of Defoe, Smollett, Fielding, and Goldsmith as he had iaccess to. All this and a great deal more we have from his own sketch ofhis early days in David Copperfield. When a very little fellow hehad made several attempts at dramatic writing, or, as he says in hispreface to a later edition of the Sketches by Boz, They (thesketches) comprise my first attempts at authorship—with theexception of certain tragedies achieved at the mature age
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