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- To the west of Dickens lies George Frederick Handel (d.1759), the great composer, on the east author Richard Brinsley Sheridan (d.1816), on the south Richard Cumberland (d.1811) dramatist, and, later on, to the north were buried the ashes of Thomas Hardy (d.1928) and Rudyard Kipling (d.1936).
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Feb 3, 2020 · 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.
- Leon Litvack
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 · Dickens’s death created an early predicament for his family. 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...
- Leon Litvack
Jun 8, 2020 · His new research has uncovered the never-before-explored areas of the great author’s sudden death on June 9 1870, and his subsequent burial. Dickens’s death created an early predicament for his...
Sep 20, 2023 · Dickens was buried in Poet’s Corner at Westminster Abbey, with thousands of mourners gathering at the beloved author’s gravesite.
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.
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.
