CHARLES FECHTER'S DEATH; TERMINATION OF A LONG ILLNESS. A GREAT ACTOR OF COSMOPOLITAN FAME-- THE STORY OF HIS MANY TRIUMPHS UPON THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH STAGE.

Well might even flippant royalty confess as much, for it will be long ere England salutes the peer of that “French importation,” Charles Albert Fechter. Kate Field.

The famed British writer sounded much like his popular Ebenezer Scrooge character when it came time to describe the Salt City in its early days.

Field, Kate; "Charles Albert Fechter"Miss Kate Field has supplied an interesting and vivacious sketch of Fechter's life to a series of American biographies. Junios Brutus Booth was born in England ...

The writer of "A Christmas Carol" called Syracuse "the most wonderful, out-of-the-world place" when he visted in 1868.

The day was spent at his house at Gad's Hill, near Rochester in Kent, among a group of admiring friends. One of these, Charles Fechter, had brought the present of a prefabricated Swiss chalet.

Within the half decade between 1870 and 1875, Charles Fechter, Carlotta Leclercq, and Tommaso Salvini first appeared in this country ; Charles James Mathews, in admirable form, revisited our stage ...

It was given to Dickens by the French actor Charles Fechter, arriving in 94 pieces on Christmas Eve 1864.

Dickens discontinued the Christmas publications in 1868, complaining to his friend Charles Fechter that he felt “as if I had murdered a Christmas number years ago (perhaps I did!) and its ghost ...

FECHTER – Charles W. Of Hamburg, entered into rest October 3, 2012. Beloved husband of Kathryn (nee Stonebraker) Fechter; devoted father of Pamela (Charles) Boehler and Wendy Fechter; cherished ...

An appeal has been launched to raise £100,000 to save the chalet in which Charles Dickens wrote many of his famous works, including Great Expectations.