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As the fashionable ‘water cure’ of spas such as Bath moved coastwards in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, so a number of obscure fishing villages reinvented themselves as seaside resorts. Kent was an obvious beneficiary of this trend, with '''Gravesend''' in the Medway area and no fewer than seven resorts along the East coast: while '''Whitstable''' and '''Herne Bay''' never offered serious competition to the Sussex resorts of Brighton and Eastbourne, visitors were drawn in large numbers to [[Broadstairs]], [[Ramsgate]] and [[Margate]] in Thanet, and to [[Folkestone]] and '''Dover''' in Sheppey. By the early decades of the 20th century visitors would be able to enjoy a body of holiday fiction set in the resort they were visiting: Maggie of [[Margate]]: a Seaside Sensation, The Passenger to [[Folkestone]], The Beauty of [[Broadstairs]] and A Girl of Thanet, to name but a few.
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As the fashionable ‘water cure’ of spas such as Bath moved coastwards in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, so a number of obscure fishing villages reinvented themselves as seaside resorts. Kent was an obvious beneficiary of this trend, with '''Gravesend''' in the Medway area and no fewer than seven resorts along the East coast: while '''Whitstable''' and '''Herne Bay''' never offered serious competition to the Sussex resorts of Brighton and Eastbourne, visitors were drawn in large numbers to '''[[Broadstairs]]''', '''[[Ramsgate]]''' and '''[[Margate]]''' in Thanet, and to '''[[Folkestone]]''' and '''[[Dover]]''' in Sheppey. By the early decades of the 20th century visitors would be able to enjoy a body of holiday fiction set in the resort they were visiting: Maggie of '''[[Margate]]''': a Seaside Sensation, The Passenger to '''[[Folkestone]]''', The Beauty of '''[[Broadstairs]]''' and A Girl of Thanet, to name but a few.
  
 
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Seaside resorts

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As the fashionable ‘water cure’ of spas such as Bath moved coastwards in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, so a number of obscure fishing villages reinvented themselves as seaside resorts. Kent was an obvious beneficiary of this trend, with Gravesend in the Medway area and no fewer than seven resorts along the East coast: while Whitstable and Herne Bay never offered serious competition to the Sussex resorts of Brighton and Eastbourne, visitors were drawn in large numbers to Broadstairs, Ramsgate and Margate in Thanet, and to Folkestone and Dover in Sheppey. By the early decades of the 20th century visitors would be able to enjoy a body of holiday fiction set in the resort they were visiting: Maggie of Margate: a Seaside Sensation, The Passenger to Folkestone, The Beauty of Broadstairs and A Girl of Thanet, to name but a few.

Bibliography

Dicks, John. The Beauty of Broadstairs. Bow Bells Novelettes. Seaside number (82). Vol iv.

 August 1880. 113-28.

Fletcher, J. S. The Passenger to Folkestone. London: Herbert Jenkins [1927]. Reed, Marcus. A Girl of Thanet. London: Andrew Melrose [1917]. Wodnil, Gabrielle. Maggie of Margate: a Seaside Sensation. London: Stanley Paul &

 Co., 1912.