A life-size bronze statue of Charles Dickens stands in Clark Park , Pennsylvania .
The original manuscripts of many of his novels , as well as printers ' proofs , first editions , and illustrations from the collection of Dickens 's friend John Forster are held at the Victoria and Albert Museum.. Dickens 's will stipulated that no memorial be erected in his honour ; nonetheless , a life-size bronze statue of Dickens entitled Dickens and Little Nell , cast in 1891 by Francis Edwin Elwell , stands in Clark Park in the Spruce Hill neighbourhood of Philadelphia , Pennsylvania .
Charles Dickens