The Empty Chair, by Luke Fildes. 1870.
The library of Charles Dickens at his home, Gad’s Hill Place, Higham, Kent, shortly after his death on 9 June 1870.
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“I wish I were Commander in Chief [ of India]...that it is my intention, with all possible avoidance of unnecessary cruelty and with all merciful swiftness of execution, to exterminate the [Hindu] Race from the face of the earth”
—Charles Dickens
(Dickens and Empire, Grace Moore)
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