Editing Kent (section)

===Literature and publishing===
Kent has provided inspiration for several notable writers and artists. It has been suggested that Kent inspired many settings in Shakespeare's plays, and he described it in the line 'Sweet is the country, and is full of riches / The people liberal, active, valiant, worthy.'<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mee |first=Arthur |title=The King's England: Arthur Mee's Kent |publisher=The Caxton Publishing Company Ltd. |year=1936 |pages=2}}</ref> Canterbury's religious role gave rise to [[Geoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer]]'s ''[[The Canterbury Tales|Canterbury Tales]]'', a key development in the English language. The father of novelist [[Charles Dickens]] worked at the [[Chatham Dockyard]]; in many of his books, the celebrated novelist featured the scenery of Chatham, Rochester, and the [[Cliffe-at-Hoo|Cliffe]] marshes.<ref name="dickens">{{cite web |title=Charles Dickens |publisher=InfoBritain |url=http://www.infobritain.co.uk/Charles_Dickens.htm |access-date=20 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070417033957/http://www.infobritain.co.uk/Charles_Dickens.htm |archive-date=17 April 2007 }}</ref> During the late 1930s, Nobel Prize-awarded novelist [[William Golding]] worked as a teacher at [[Maidstone Grammar School]], where he met his future wife Ann Brookfield.<ref name=autogenerated2>{{cite web |title=William Golding&nbsp;– Biography |publisher=William-Golding.co.uk |url=http://www.william-golding.co.uk/p_biography.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030224034425/http://www.william-golding.co.uk/p_biography.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 February 2003 |access-date=20 June 2007}}</ref> [[William Caxton]], who first introduced the [[printing press]] to England, was born in Kent; the recent invention was key in helping many [[Kentish dialect|Kent dialect]] words and spellings to become standard in [[English language|English]]. [[Lord Northbourne]] hosted a [[biodynamic agriculture]] conference on his estate at [[Betteshanger]] in the summer of 1939, he coined the term '[[organic farming]]' and published his [[manifesto]] of [[organic agriculture]] the following year spawning a global movement for [[sustainable agriculture]] and food.<ref name=Kent>Paull, John (2021). [https://www.academia.edu/48843258/Organic_Agriculture_Invented_in_Kent Organic Agriculture - Invented in Kent] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514021450/https://www.academia.edu/48843258/Organic_Agriculture_Invented_in_Kent |date=14 May 2021 }}, Kent Maps Symposium, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, 5 May.</ref>