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Death of Charles Dickens Ends Storied Literary Career
The 1870 death at Gad's Hill Place near Rochester follows a protracted illness after a dinner fit of apoplexy. The obituary chronicles Dickens's rise from journalist to master storyteller, his major works, editorships, and public readings, as well as notes on his last unfinished novel Edwin Drood and the Queen’s sympathetic reply.
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