Summary
When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Times of London successfully campaigned for his burial in Westminster Abbey, the final resting place of England's kings and heroes. Thousands flocked to mourn the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England. His books had made them laugh, shown... Full description
- The inimitable
- The sins of the fathers
- A London education
- Becoming Boz
- The journalist
- Four publishers and a wedding
- 'Till death do us part'
- Blackguards and brigands
- Killing Nell
- Conquering America
- Setbacks
- Travels, dreams, and visions
- Crisis
- Dombey, with interruptions
- A home
- A personal history
- Fathers and sons
- Children at work
- Little Dorrit and friends
- Wayward and unsettled
- Stormy weather
- Secrets, mysteries, and lies
- The Bebelle life
- Wise daughters
- The Chief
- 'Things look like work again'
- Pickswick, Pecknicks, Pickwicks
- The remembrance of my friends.