Dickens Jr., Charles
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Birthname | Charles Culliford Boz Dickens | ||||
born on | 6 January 1837 at 18:15 (= 6:15 PM ) | ||||
Place | London, England, 51n30, 0w10 | ||||
Timezone | LMT m0w10 (is local mean time) | ||||
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Biography
English writer from a noted family. He was the first child of the novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. A failed businessman, he became the editor of his father's magazine All the Year Round, and a successful writer of dictionaries. He is now most remembered for his two 1879 books Dickens's Dictionary of London and Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames. He died on July 20, 1896.
Relationships
- child->parent relationship with Dickens, Charles (born 7 February 1812)
- sibling relationship with Dickens, Kate (born 29 October 1839)
- sibling relationship with Dickens, Mary (born 6 March 1838)
- sibling relationship with Dickens, Walter Landor (born 8 February 1841)
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes "Charles Dickens, his tragedy and triumph" by Edgar Johnson (Penguin, 1979), p. 120: "The baby, a boy, was born at quarter past six that evening, and was thus a Twelfth-Night child. He was named Charles after his father."
Categories
- Family : Childhood : Family noted (Son of Charles Dickens)
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor (Magazine editor)
- Vocation : Writers : Other Writers (Writer of dictionaries)