Dickens died at his house ... Public opinion, led by The Times newspaper, demanded that Westminster Abbey was the only place for the burial of someone of his distinction. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean ...

A few days after his death, the newspaper published a leader calling for Dickens to be buried at ‘the peculiar resting place of English literary genius’, adding that ‘very few are more worthy than ...

As Charles Dickens lay in his coffin, his will was read out to the assembled mourners. ‘I conjure my friends,’ he sternly ...

The eldest son of Elizabeth and John Dickens was born in February 1812 ... “no public announcement be made of the time or place of my burial,” hundreds of thousands of people lined up to ...

His popularity has barely waned since his death and there have been over ... After receiving an inheritance, John Dickens was released and Charles was sent to the private Wellington House Academy ...