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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.
English. 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. [1] [2]
Letitia Dickens (1816–1893), sposò Henry Austin; Harriet Dickens (1819–1824) Frederick Dickens (1820–1868) Alfred Lamert Dickens (1822–1860) Five children; Augustus Dickens (1827–1866) Bertram, Adrian e Amy Bertha Dickens; Il personaggio di Fred in La bottega dell'antiquario prese ispirazione da Frederick Dickens.
Dickens tells us in the preface to Pickwick how the nickname 'Boz' arose - Dickens called Augustus 'Moses' after Moses Primrose in The Vicar of Wakefield which 'being facetiously pronounced through the nose, became Boses, and being shortened, became Boz'2.
Dickens took the pseudonym from a nickname he had given his younger brother Augustus, whom he called "Moses" after a character in Oliver Goldsmith 's The Vicar of Wakefield. This, "being facetiously pronounced through the nose," became "Boses", which in turn was shortened to "Boz".
- Charles Dickens
- 1833
23 dic 2011 · Tribune editor Horace White published a lengthy correction in 1869, calling Augustus Dickens a "brilliant scapegrace" and defending Chicago against charges of its eternal Second City complex:
24 giu 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...
