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A Dickens of a Celebration

By Linda Tancs

Today marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Britain’s beloved author Charles Dickens.  To mark the event, a wreath laying ceremony will take place in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, at 11 a.m.  Dickens is buried in the South Transept of the Abbey.  The ceremony will include readings from his novels and his other writings by actor and director Ralph Fiennes, author Claire Tomalin and two of Dickens’ descendants.  Events will take place throughout the year.  Don’t miss the re-opening of the Charles Dickens Museum, based at his only surviving London home.  The Museum of London is also hosting an exhibition, complete with the desk and chair where Dickens wrote some of his greatest works.  The best of times await you.

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