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Stipple engraving by Joseph Brown, published by Chapman & Hall, after John Watkins. [1860s].

Charles DICKENS (1812-1870) – Part II

June 2020

(b.Portsmouth, 7 February 1812; d.Gad’s Hill Place, Kent, 9 June 1870)

In February 2012 we celebrated Dickens’s bicentenary with a display of title-pages and other material from the Museum’s collections introduced by Professor Leonée Ormond (see Exhibition of the Month, February 2012).  This month we celebrate  the 150th anniversary of the writer’s death with a few further, recently-acquired, items.

 

[W. Wilson] : The David Copperfield Polka. London, [1850?].

1.  George Linley : Little Nell. Ballad. London, [1857?].   2.  W. M. Parker : Little Dorrit Schottische. London, [1856].   3.  J. L. Hatton : The Showman. Song. London, [c.1859].

The full-page illustration that appeared with the obituary. Illustrated London News, 18 June 1870.

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