DeathĪfter suffering a stroke, Dickens died at age 58 on June 9, 1870, at Gad’s Hill Place, his country home in Kent, England.įive years earlier, Dickens had been in a train accident and never fully recovered. dollars.īack at home, Dickens had become so famous that people recognized him all over London as he strolled around the city, collecting the observations that would serve as inspiration for his future work.ĭickens also spent significant time in Italy, resulting in his 1846 travelogue Pictures from Italy. His 75 readings netted an estimated $95,000, which, in the Victorian era, amounted to approximately $1.5 million in current U.S. This time, he made a charismatic speech promising to praise the United States in reprints of American Notes for General Circulation and The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. tour, from 1867 to 1868, hoping to set things right with the public. Be content if in their wretched intervals of leisure they read for amusement and do no worse.” “I write because I can't help it.” “Literature cannot be too faithful to the people, cannot too ardently advocate the cause of their advancement, happiness and prosperity.” “An author feels as if he were dismissing some portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd of the creatures of his brain are going from him forever.” “Nobody has done more harm in this single generation than everybody can mend in 10 generations.” “If I were soured, I should still try to sweeten the lives and fancies of others but I am not-not at all.” “Well, the work is hard, the climate is hard, the life is hard: but so far the gain is enormous.” “Who that has ever reflected on the enormous and vast amount of leave-taking there is in life can ever have doubted the existence of another?” “I never knew what it was to feel disgust and contempt, till I traveled in America.” “My great ambition is to live in the hearts and homes of home-loving people, and to be connected with the truth of the truthful English life.”Īfter his criticism of the American people during his first tour, Dickens launched a second U.S.
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