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Feb 3, 2020 · This article, published to mark the 150th anniversary of Dickens's death in 2020, is based on new research carried out for 'Dickens's Burial in Westminster Abbey: The Untold Story', the lead ...
- Leon Litvack
Dickens was set to be buried in Rochester Cathedral. They had even dug a grave for the great man. But this plan too was scuppered, in favour of interment in Poets’ Corner, in Westminster Abbey – the resting place of Geoffrey Chaucer, Samuel Johnson, and other literary greats.
Feb 7, 2012 · Dickens died at his house, Gad's Hill Place, near Rochester in Kent and it was presumed that he would be buried at Rochester Cathedral although an Order in Council did not permit any interments in the churchyard there.
Jun 8, 2020 · This article, published to mark the 150th anniversary of Dickens's death in 2020, is based on new research carried out for 'Dickens's Burial in Westminster Abbey: The Untold Story', the...
Abstract. This essay adopts a microhistorical approach to reassess the circumstances surrounding Dickens’s death and burial. Using previously unseen documentary evidence, it alters the canonical details provided by John Forster, which have been the basis of almost every account of the author’s interment over the past 150 years.
Jun 8, 2020 · This article, published to mark the 150th anniversary of Dickens's death in 2020, is based on new research carried out for 'Dickens's Burial in Westminster Abbey: The Untold Story', the...
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Jun 8, 2020 · Charles Dickens: newly discovered documents reveal truth about his death and burial: This piece was read 121,000 times in The Conversation and its syndicated publications in 2020. there were also 223,000 radditional eads from Yahoo News UK (not reported to the Conversation dashboard).
