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Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (28 October 1845 – 2 January 1912) was an English lecturer. The sixth child and fourth son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine, [1] Dickens made lecture tours in Australia, Europe, and the United States on his father's life and work.
31 ott 2023 · About Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens. Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens was the sixth child and fourth son of British novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. He made lecture tours in Australia, Europe and the United States on his father's life and work.
- London
- Regent's Park, London, England, UK
- Augusta Jessie Dickens, Emily Dickens
- October 28, 1845
10 mar 2019 · In about 1910, some forty years after the esteemed writer’s death, one of his four sons, Alfred D’Orsay Tennyson Dickens, embarked on a tour of England, giving lectures on the life and work of his father. He had recently returned from Australia, where he had been living since 1865.
Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens, the sixth child and fourth son of Charles and Catherine Dickens, was named after the soon-to-be English poet laureate and the French dandy who served as his godfathers. Again, Dickens was blatantly attempting to cement his personal association with other prominent Victorians.
Fourth son of Charles Dickens. His godfathers were Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Count Alfred D'Orsay. He was educated at Boulogne-sur-Mer before he attended Brackenbury's Military School in Wimbledon. But he failed his exam for the Army and he worked for two years in a China House in London. In June 1865 he emigrated to Australia.
Dickens was so convinced of the redeeming qualities of antipodean emigration that he sent two of his sons, Alfred D’Orsay Tennyson Dickens and Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, to settle in Australia.
Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens, the son of Charles Dickens and Catherine Hogarth Dickens, was born on 28th October, 1845. It was a difficult birth but she eventually recovered. He was named after the poet, Alfred Tennyson. In 1853 Alfred was sent with his brother, Frank, to a boarding school for English boys in Boulogne, run by two English ...
