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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.
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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.
In the popular imagination, the city of London is still held in thrall to the pen of Charles Dickens. His residence in the city he so famously portrayed is commemorated with a blue plaque at 48 Doughty Street in Bloomsbury.
In the popular imagination, the city of London is still held in thrall to the pen of Charles Dickens. His residence in the city he so famously portrayed is commemorated with a blue plaque at 48 Doughty Street in Bloomsbury.
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.'