The grave of Charles Dickens in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, 1870. 'The venerable Abbey lately received the mortal body of another English week, by order of Dean Stanley,...the grave of Charles Dickens was made here in the middle of the elaborate monument of the Duke of Argyll in George II.'s time - Jeanie Deans's good Duke, in "The Heart of Midlothian" - rises monuments of Goldsmith and shown to the [Dickens'] grave, already strewed with flowers, would henceforth be a sacred spot both with the New World as w
The grave of Charles Dickens in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, 1870. 'The venerable Abbey lately received the mortal body of another English week, by order of Dean Stanley,...the grave of Charles Dickens was made here in the middle of the elaborate monument of the Duke of Argyll in George II.'s time - Jeanie Deans's good Duke, in "The Heart of Midlothian" - rises monuments of Goldsmith and shown to the [Dickens'] grave, already strewed with flowers, would henceforth be a sacred spot both with the New World as well as with the Old, as that of the representative of the literature, not of this island only, but of all who speak our English tongue. The Dean [Dr. Stanley] then read the following extract from Mr. Dickens's will, dated May 12, 1869: "I direct that my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my I enjoin my friends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works, and the remembrance of my friends upon their experience of me in addition thereto"...Thousands have visited Poets' Corner since his interment on Tuesday week'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.
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