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Walter Savage Landor Dickens (8 February 1841 – 31 December 1863) was the fourth child and second son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. He became an officer cadet in the East India Company 's Presidency armies just before the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
31 de dic. de 2019 · On his 52 birthday (7 February, 1864) Charles Dickens received word that his son, Walter Landor, had died in India on 31 December 1863. A few days later Dickens described the circumstances of Walter’s death in a long letter to Angela Burdett Coutts (12 February 1864).
11 de sept. de 2018 · About Walter Savage Landor Dickens. Walter Savage Landor Dickens was the fourth child and second son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. He became an officer cadet in the East India Company's Presidency armies just before the Indian Mutiny.
- London, Middlesex
- February 8, 1841
- Middlesex
- December 31, 1863
Walter Savage Landor Dickens, two years younger than his closest sibling, Katey, was the fourth child and second son of Charles and Catherine Dickens. Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) was another of those eminent Victorians whom Dickens attempted to absorb into his family's orbit by naming one of his children after him.
Walter Savage Landor was born at Warwick in 1775. As a writer he was highly regarded by a few, but was known to most of his contemporaries as a ‘character’: an impetuous and headstrong man (caricatured as Boythorn by Dickens in Bleak House ) holding in his youth extreme radical views.
- Pierre Vitoux
- 1992
Walter Landor Dickens, the fourth child of Charles Dickens and Catherine Hogarth Dickens, was born on 8th February, 1841, at the family home of 48 Doughty Street to 1 Devonshire Terrace, York Gate, close to Regent's Park. Walter was not a very successful student and when he was sixteen his father arranged for him to be sent to India to join the ...
Landor greatly admired Dickens's works, and was especially moved by the character of Nell Trent (from The Old Curiosity Shop). Landor was affectionately adapted by Dickens as Lawrence Boythorn in Bleak House. He was the godfather of Dickens's son Walter Landor Dickens.
