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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.
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.
31 dic 2019 · Looking for Walter Landor Dickens. By Dickens Society Blog. December 31, 2019. 1 Comment. Contributed by Christian Lehmann, Bard High School, Early College. 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 ...
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. A fervid supporter of liberal causes such as Giuseppe Garibaldi's campaigns for the reunification of Italy, Landor was imbued with the young Dickens's passion for liberal and ...
As a poet, Walter Savage Landor was best known for his classic epigrams and idylls. He was a seriously emulative classicist and wrote a significant proportion of his poetry in Latin, which was also the original language of some of the long and short poems that he published in English.
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 ...
On 7 February 1864 Charles Dickens should have been celebrating his 52nd birthday. However on that day he received the tragic news that his son Walter had died in Calcutta on New Year’s Eve at the age of only 22. Walter Landor Dickens had been serving as a military officer...
