Poets' Corner
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Poets' Corner is a section of the southern transept of Westminster Abbey in London, England, where many poets, playwrights, and writers are buried or commemorated.
Memorials in Poets' Corner
Partial view of Poets' Corner
The west wall of Poets' Corner
Grave of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
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Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era
Poets' Corner
…and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone. Grave of Charles Dickens Some of those buried in Poets' Corner also had memorials erected to them over or near their grave, either around the time of their death or later. In…
Portrait by Jeremiah Gurney, c. 1867–1868
Charles Dickens's birthplace, 393 Commercial Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire
2 Ordnance Terrace (house on the left), Chatham, Kent, Dickens's home from 1817 to 1821
An illustration by Fred Bernard of Dickens at work in a shoe-blacking factory after his father had been sent to the Marshalsea, published in the 1892 edition of Forster's Life of Charles Dickens