kent | A set of themed essays about Kent, a county in South East England, which include interactive maps and images. Kent has a rich history and provided inspiration for a number of writers and artists.

People

Henry Gardiner Adams
William Harrison Ainsworth
May Aldington
Hans Christian Andersen
Anna Atkins
Jane Austen
Alfred Austin
Robert Barr
David Baron
Adelaide Bartlett
R. D. Blackmore
M.E. Braddon
John Brent
Hablot K. Browne
Angela Burdett-Coutts
William Burges
F. C. Burnand
Josephine Butler
Jane Carlyle and Geraldine Jewsbury
Charles Carrick
Jessie Challacombe
Mary Cowden Clarke
Wilkie Collins
Joseph Conrad
Dinah Craik
Catherine Ann Crowe
Richard Dadd
Charles Darwin
Charles Dickens
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
William Dyce
George Eliot
Sir John Franklin
Thomas Frost
Elizabeth Gould
Sarah Grand
George Grossmith
Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe
George Alfred Henty
Sir John Herschel
Georgina Hogarth and Ellen Ternan
Hugh Price Hughes
Anna Maria Hussey
Henry James
Edith Katherine Spicer Jay
Jerome K. Jerome
Douglas William Jerrold
Dora Jordan
John Keats
Reginald Koettlitz
Eliza Lynn Linton
John Edensor Littlewood
Bessie Marchant
George Meredith
Major Alfred Moberly
F.F. Montrésor
Augustus Welby Pugin
Joseph Pyke
G.W.M. Reynolds
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti
Henry Russell
George Augustus Sala
Edward Linley Sambourne
Mary Shelley
Margaret Emily Shore
Lady Hester Stanhope
Henrietta Vaughan Stannard
Charlotte Carmichael Stopes
Francis Storr
Netta Syrett
Archibald Campbell Tait
Ellen Ternan
William Makepeace Thackeray
Queen Victoria
Louis Wain
Ann Walker
Sir Hugh Walpole
Florence Warden
Gertrude Warden
Billy Waters
P.G. Wodehouse
Israel Zangwill

Places

Broadstairs
Canterbury
Chatham Dockyard
Dover
Folkestone
Folkestone Free Library
Gravesend
Margate
Ramsgate
Rosherville
Sandgate
Seaside resorts

Events

Contagious Diseases Acts
Hoodening
Jewish Emancipation
Leather and Dust

Texts

Miss Balmaine’s Past by Bithia Croker