9th June 2017

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens, Jeremy Tambling

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

 

Charles Dickens

 

June 9, 1865: Charles Dickens was in a train derailment in England, 152 years ago today. He climbed out a window and saved the manuscript of Our Mutual Friend, but didn't leave the scene until he'd brought the victims water from a nearby river, which he ferried in his top hat.