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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.
- The Nation's Memory
When Charles Dickens died at his home in Kent on 9th June...
- The Nation's Memory
7 Feb 1812. Portsmouth, Portsmouth Unitary Authority, Hampshire, England. Death. 9 Jun 1870 (aged 58) Higham, Gravesham Borough, Kent, England. Burial. Westminster Abbey. Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England Show Map. Plot. Poets Corner. Memorial ID. 1256. · View Source. Suggest Edits. Memorial. Photos 4. Flowers 1397.
Dickens's grave in Westminster Abbey A 1905 transcribed copy of the death certificate of Charles Dickens On 8 June 1870, Dickens had another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood .
- 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
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.
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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.
