<P> Charles Dickens first saw the mansion when he was 9 years old in 1821 , when his father John Dickens told Charles that if he worked hard enough , one day he would own it or just such a house . As a boy , Charles Dickens would often walk from Chatham to Gads Hill Place as he wished to see it again and again as an image of his possible future . Dickens was later to write , `` I used to look at it as a wonderful Mansion ( which God knows it is not ) when I was a very odd little child with the first faint shadows of all my books in my head - I suppose . '' Thirty - five years later , after Dickens had risen to fame and wealth , he discovered that the house was for sale and bought it for £ 1790 in March 1856 from fellow writer Eliza Lynn ( later known as novelist Mrs. Eliza Lynn Linton ) . Initially Dickens bought the house as an investment , intending to let it , but changed his mind and used it instead as a country retreat , moving into the house in June 1857 . </P>
<P> Charles Dickens first saw the mansion when he was 9 years old in 1821 , when his father John Dickens told Charles that if he worked hard enough , one day he would own it or just such a house . As a boy , Charles Dickens would often walk from Chatham to Gads Hill Place as he wished to see it again and again as an image of his possible future . Dickens was later to write , `` I used to look at it as a wonderful Mansion ( which God knows it is not ) when I was a very odd little child with the first faint shadows of all my books in my head - I suppose . '' Thirty - five years later , after Dickens had risen to fame and wealth , he discovered that the house was for sale and bought it for £ 1790 in March 1856 from fellow writer Eliza Lynn ( later known as novelist Mrs. Eliza Lynn Linton ) . Initially Dickens bought the house as an investment , intending to let it , but changed his mind and used it instead as a country retreat , moving into the house in June 1857 . </P>
when did charles buy gad 's hill place
when did charles buy gad 's hill place
March 1856
March 1856