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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.
Charles Dickens. Author. He was the son of Elizabeth Cuilliford Barrow and John Dickens, a Naval Pay Office clerk. During his childhood, the family spent time between Plymouth, London, and Chatham.
- 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 8, 2020 · Where was he to be buried? Near his home (as he would have wished) or in that great public pantheon, Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey (which was clearly against his wishes)?
- Leon Litvack
Feb 8, 2012 · As the literary world celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, the BBC can reveal a grave was dug for him at Rochester Cathedral but never used.
Facing the grave, and on its left and right, are the monuments of CHAUCER, SHAKESPEARE, and DRYDEN, the three immortals who did most to create and settle the language to which CHARLES DICKENS has given another undying name.
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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.
