2-716-528 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Charles Dickens's last reading at St. James's Hall, March 15, 1870, (1901). British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) at his reading table during the 'Farewell Season' at St James's Hall near Regent Street in London. Dickens was by this time very ill, and died a few weeks later, on 8 June. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]