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- Dickens wanted to be buried in Rochester Cathedral but instead we find him in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, with the inscription: 'He was a sympathiser to the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world.'
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Feb 7, 2012 · So Dickens was buried in the almost empty and silent Abbey, the funeral service from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer being read by the Dean. On the top of the plain coffin was laid a wreath of ferns and roses, with single red and white roses down each side and a circle of white roses at the foot.
Dickens was commemorated on the Series E £10 note issued by the Bank of England that circulated between 1992 and 2003. His portrait appeared on the reverse of the note accompanied by a scene from The Pickwick Papers. The Charles Dickens School is a high school in Broadstairs, Kent.
Filmed from lockdown by representatives of the family, many of whom had hoped to be attending wreath laying services at Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey today in honour of their ancestor Charles Dickens.
Charles Dickens is buried in Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey, amid other literary greats such as Chaucer and Robert Browning. Poets Corner is the name traditionally given to a section of Westminster where a number of poets, playwrights, and writers are buried and commemorated there.
June marked 150 years since Charles Dickens was laid to rest in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey. At the time, it seemed like the right place for the grave of one of our greatest novelists and a fearless champion of the underdog, whose life had been closely intertwined with Westminster landmarks.
Sep 23, 2011 · Article. ‘A veritable Dickens shrine’: Commemorating Charles Dickens at the Dickens House Museum. Author: Catherine Malcolmson (University of Leicester) Share: A- A+. Dyslexia. Abstract. In 1925, the Dickens Fellowship founded the ‘Dickens House Museum’ at Number 48 Doughty Street, London.
When Charles Dickens died at his home in Kent on 9th June 1870, it was presumed that he would be buried in Rochester Cathedral or in one of the nearby parish churches at Cobham or Shorne. This, after all, was what the author of some of the greatest novels in the English language had wanted.
