. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. iu the production of a new serial novel, Edwin Drood, which wasabout half finished at the time when he suddenly died at Gadshill,near Rochest
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. iu the production of a new serial novel, Edwin Drood, which wasabout half finished at the time when he suddenly died at Gadshill,near Rochester, England, June 0. 1870. Dickens was emphatically the peoples novelist, and his facultyof teaching some wholesome public moral by his fictions did muchtoward the adoption of some important reforms. He was buriedin Westminster Abbey, without pomp. Shortly before his deathhe visited Queen Victoria at her request, and was offered thehonor of knighthood; but he declined it. His works, besides thosementioned above, include the following: Eight Christmas Stories,which met with great favor as they respectively appeared; Picturesfrom Italy, Dombey and Son, ? • David Copperfield, A ChildsHistory of England, Hard Times, Bleak House, LittleDorrit, A Tale of Two Cities. • • Great Expectations, • TheUncommercial Traveler, and Our Mutual Friend, not to mentionfarces and>ome uncollected short stories. ^ 292 THAOKEKAY, WELL-KNOWN ENGLISH
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