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Brian T. Roper[note 1] (19 August 1929 – 14 May 1994) [1][2][3][5][note 2] was a British-American film and television actor, and, in later years, real estate agent. Biography.
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- Last Will and Testament
- The Funeral Directors
- ‘Mr Dickens Very Ill, Most Urgent’
- False Claims and Ambition
- For The Ages
In his will (reproduced in Forster’s biography), Dickens had left instructions that he should be: Forster added that Dickens’s preferred place of burial – his Plan A – was “in the small graveyard under Rochester Castle wall, or in the little churches of Cobham or Shorne”, which were all near his country home. However, Forster added: “All these were...
My investigation has revealed, however, how Dickens’s burial in Poets’ Corner was engineered by Forster and Stanley to satisfy their personal aims, rather than the author’s own. While the official story was that it was the “will of the people” to have Dickens buried in the Abbey (and there were articles in The Times to this effect), the reality was...
The new evidence I have found was gathered from libraries, archives and cathedral vaults and prove beyond a doubt that any claims about the Westminster burial being the will of the people are false. What emerges is an atmosphere of urgency in the Dickens household after the author collapsed. Dickens’s son Charley sent the telegram to the author’s s...
Meanwhile, the idea of getting Dickens to Poets’ Corner was growing in Stanley’s imagination. He wrote to his cousin Louisa on Saturday June 11 to say “I never met (Dickens) till this year… And now he is gone … and it is not improbable that I may bury him”. It’s interesting how quickly the plan crystallised in the Dean’s mind. Within the space of 4...
My research demonstrates that the official, authorised accounts of the lives and deaths of the rich and famous are open to question and forensic investigation – even long after their histories have been written and accepted as canonical. Celebrity is a manufactured commodity, that depends for its effect on the degree to which the fan (which comes f...
- Leon Litvack
Jun 14, 2021 · During it, he suffered a mild stroke and was forced to return home. Although his health had improved significantly, he ignored his doctor's wishes and scheduled 12 performances of "A Christmas Carol" as well as a trial scene from "The Pickwick Papers" at St. James' Hall in London beginning in January 1870.
Mar 15, 2021 · Dickens was so extraordinarily famous and recognisable that his life, works and death have been picked over in the minutest of details ever since he found fame in his twenties. Even now, over two centuries since his birth, stories about Dickens can still make front-page headlines.
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Occupation (s) Film and television actor. Bryan Marshall (19 May 1938 – 25 June 2019) was a British actor, with a number of major credits in film and television to his name, in both in Britain and Australia. [1]
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Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈdɪkɪnz /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
