Charles Dickens at the Angel, Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk
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Blue Plaque commemorating Charles Dickens staying at The Angel.
Waymark Code: WM14PZ4
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/08/2021
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The blue plaque at the front of The Angel Hotel in Bury St Edmunds marks Charles Dickens’ visits to the former coaching inn which he immortalized in his Pickwick Papers.
“And this,” said Mr. Pickwick, looking up, “is the Angel! We alight here, Sam.”
The blue plaque at the front of The Angel Hotel was installed on the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth to commemorate his visits to Bury St Edmunds and a thank you to the man who featured the former coaching inn and the town in his book The Pickwick Papers.
Dickens, who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, first stayed at The Angel in 1835 as a journalist for the Morning Chronicle (staying in what was then room 11).
He also gave readings at The Athenaeum from The Pickwick Papers on 13 October 1859 and again on 30 October 1861 when he read from A Personal History of David Copperfield.
This Blue Plaque reads:
CHARLES DICKENS
1812-1870
AUTHOR OF
THE PICKWICK PAPERS
STAYED HERE