Charles Dickens – Books That Killed Their Authors #3
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The day before the last day of his life, Charles Dickens worked extra-hard writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood, his new novel.
On 8 June 1870, Dickens worked a full eight hours writing.
It was Dickens’ habit at the time to write for four hours each day. But that June day he worked eight straight hours in the top floor study of the prefabricated two-story Swiss chalet located across the road from his country mansion in Kent, Gads Hill Place.
He was desperate to finish the new novel. Dickens was on deadline. Literally, as it turned out.
