Tickets were being sold quicker than anyone could have anticipated. The events were so packed that people began to bundle outside the venues. “Biographer J.B. Priestly wrote that during the tour, Dickens had the greatest welcome that probably any visitor to America has ever had” (Bio. Pg1). Dickens bashed the americans in American Notes saying that he did not like how they invaded his privacy, he also talked about how “he found Americans gregariousness and crude habits annoying” (Bio. Pg1). Dickens had put in motion a second U.S. tour between the years of 1867 and 1868 to make things better with the …show more content…
In 1857 that would take a turn for the better a bright spot we could call it. Charles met Ellen Ternan she was an eighteen year girl who was an actress in one his plays. Even though the age gap drastic they became an item and fell helplessly in love with each other. They kept their relationship private because dickens was married but a year later Charles and his wife separated. Two of the most famous of dickens writings were published later in his life, ‘Tale of Two Cities’ and ‘Great Expectations’. Shortly after that a year of suffering for Charles was a waiting him. Both his father and his twenty two year old son had died. Charles health was not very good either. Charles over worked him self till the very end. He was still writing, editing, giving lectures and speeches all over. The last novel Charles got to finish before dying was ‘Our Mutual Friend’ which he finished in 1865. On June 9th 1870 Charles Dickens died of a stroke in him home in London, he was buried in Poets corner at Westminster Abbey. After hearing of Charles death ‘Thomas Carlyle who was a Scottish Historian and also an author had said “the good, the gentle, high-gifted, ever-friendly, noble Dickens- every inch of him an honest man”’(Thom.