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Augustus Newnham Dickens (10 November 1827 – 4 October 1866) was the youngest brother of English novelist Charles Dickens, and the inspiration for Charles's pen name 'Boz'. Augustus emigrated to America and pursued various careers including as a land agent in Chicago.
Augustus Snodgrass is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's first novel, The Pickwick Papers (1836). He considers himself a Romantic poet, though there is no mention of any of his own poetry in the novel.
23 de dic. de 2011 · When Charles Dickens toured America for the last time, he gave Chicago the cold shoulder, as well as his widowed Chicago sister-and-law.
20 de ene. de 2012 · Augustus, que murió el año anterior a la última gira americana de Dickens, había abandonado en Inglaterra a su esposa ciega, Harriet, para irse a vivir a Chicago con una mujer más joven.
Family. The family members include: John Dickens (1785–1851), married Elizabeth Barrow (1789–1863) Frances Elizabeth Dickens (1810–1848), married Henry Burnett. Henry Augustus Burnett (1839–1849) Charles Dickens Kneller Burnett (1841–1881) Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812–1870), novelist, married Catherine Hogarth (1815–1879)
24 de jun. de 2004 · Charles Dickens’s worldwide fame gave his brother Augustus a name that opened doors even in the rough-hewn Illinois of the 1850s. But the author cut off all contact with his younger brother...
Estos dos hombres se conocieron a través de un conocido mutuo, el artista *** Augustus Egg. Dickens, quien conocía al padre de Wilkie, William Collins, paisajista y miembro de la Real Academia, invitó al joven Collins a participar en un grupo aficionado de teatro. Wilkie encontró en Dickens una alternativa a su estricto y autoritario padre.
