In the novel Sophy Laurie, published in 1865, William Carew Hazlitt writes: It is at Broadstairs they are staying in the big, bleak house that stands alone on a peak of the chalk cliff, as if it were some sentinel set over the rovers up and down the sea.įor much of the 20th century, Bleak House was in two quite distinct parts, serving as both a private residence and a Dickens memorial museum. The famous Danish author Hans Christian Andersen was a regular guest during this time. What can be certain is that the house held a special attraction for Dickens, and was the residence he "most desired" in his most favourite of watering places, Broadstairs. Some people believe that the house from which Dickens took his inspiration is far distant from Broadstairs. There has been much dispute over the truth of the claim. Somebody asserted that it was the Bleak House referred to in Dickens' 1853 novel, and the name stuck. Fort House was dubbed Bleak House in the early part of the 20th century. It was there in that "airy nest" above the harbour that he wrote David Copperfield. Bleak House was originally called Fort House and was the residence of a captain of one of the two coastal forts guarding Broadstairs, the town in which it is situated.Īssociation with Charles Dickens Ĭharles Dickens leased Fort House from the 1840s till 1852.
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