Dear H,   Charles Dickens was born 200 years ago, and on his birthday, February 7th, a wreath was laid in Westminster Abbey. Dickens’ grave under a hefty slab in Poets’ Corner is flanked by the graves of Kipling, Hardy and the eighteenth-century dramatist Richard Cumberland, and the Corner is surrounded with a baroque confusion […]

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