Question

What is the truth about the death of Charles Dickens?

Answer 1

On June 8th 1870 Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin druid, he never regained consciousness and the next day five years to the day after the staple huss trail crash. he died at gadshill place biographer claire Tomalin has suggested Dickens was acutually in peckham when he suffered the stroke and his mistress Ellen Ternan and her mates had him taken back to gadshill so the public would not know the truth about their relationship contrary to his wish to be buried at rochester cathedral in an inexpensive an ostentatious and strictly private manner he was laid to rest in the poets corner of westiminster abbey a printed epitaph circulated at the time of the funeral reads to the memory of charles dickens who died at his residence hiam near rochester kent june 9th 1870 aged 58 years he was a sympathizer with the poor the suffering and the oppressed and by his death one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world his last words were on the ground in response to his sister-in-law Georgina's request that he lie down on sunday june 19 1870 five days after Dickens was buried in the Abbey Dean Arthur Penner hen stanley delivered a memorial elegy lauding the genial and loving humorist whom we now mourn for showing by his own example that even in dearling with me darkest scenes in the most degraded characters genius could still be clean and mirth could be inocent pointing to the fresh flowers that adorned the novelist's grave stanley assured those present death the spot would thence forth be a scared one with both the new world and the old as that of the representative of literature not of this island only but of all who speak our English tongue in his will drafted more than a year before his death Dickens left the care of his 80,000 pounds estate to his longime collegue John Forester and his best and truest friend Georgina Hogarth who along with Dickens has two sons also received a tax-free sum of eight thousands pounds although Dickens and his wife had been seperated for several years at the time of his death he provided her with an annual income of six hundred pounds and made her similar allowances in his will, he also be quite 19 pounds to each servant in his empolyment at the time of his death.