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In 1856, fees for books allowed Dickens to buy a house gadfly-Hill Place in Kent. As a boy Dickens wanted to live in this house.In addition, the surrounding areas were related to the events described by Shakespeare in the first part of "Henry IV», which pleased the writer.
In 1857 Dickens hired professional actresses to play "Frozen depth," written with protege Dickens Vilkom Collins. With one of them, Ellen Ternan, Dickens formed in communication, which lasted all his life. Next, in 1858, he and wife Catherine were living separately, although in those days the official divorce for a man of honor Dickens was unthinkable.
June 8, 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke. It happened at home after day's work on "Edwin Drude." The next day, June 9, five years after the accident near Steplhersta, writer died without regaining consciousness. Despite his own desire to be buried uRochesterskomu Cathedral, Dickens was buried in Westminster Abbey poets corner [35]. During the funeral attended distributed epitaph with the words: "In memory of Charles Dickens (the most popular writer in England), who died in their own homes, Hayhem, near Rochester, Kent, June 9, 1870 at the age of 58. He sympathized with the poor, disadvantaged and oppressed, and the death of one of the greatest writers of England lost to the world [36]. They say that the last words of Dickens: "Be natural children. To the writer's natural that all the rules of art "[37].
In his will, Dickens said that in his honor is erected no memorial.The only life-size bronze monument, cast in 1891 Francis Edwin Elvellom stands in Clark Park in Spryus Hill, Pennsylvania, USA.Bed, where he died, kept in the museum Dickens in Portsmouth.