The Dickens House Museum in 'Betsey Trotwood's House', Broadstairs, Kent.
In the 1850s this house was the home of Mary Pearson Strong, on whom Charles Dickens based the character of Betsey Trotwood in David Copperfield. She is remembered as a kindly old lady who, like Betsy Trotwood, took great exception to donkeys in front of her house. To save her any embarrassment Dickens set the location of the house in Dover. The house was bought by the Tattam family in 1919, by which time it had already been named 'Dickens House'. Their daughter left it to the town of Broadstairs for use as a museum and it opened as the Dickens House Museum in 1973. The building itself is thought to date in part from Tudor times although there have been amendments and additions since, up to the addition of the crinoline balcony in Victorian times. The museum now commemorates Dickens' love for Broadstairs and contains exhibits and memorabilia of the time he spent in the town
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Location: Dickens House Museum, Victoria Parade, Broadstairs, Kent, England, UK
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