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Dora Annie Dickens (16 August 1850 – 14 April 1851) was the infant daughter of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. She was the ninth of their ten children, and the youngest of their three daughters.
Jul 5, 2012 · Dora Annie Dickens (1850-1851) – Dora was named after a character from one of her father’s novels, Dora from David Copperfield. Dora was never a strong baby and died when she was only eight months old.
Dora Annie Dickens. (August 16, 1850 April 14, 1851) Dora was named after Dora Spenlow, a character in David Copperfield. In the novel, Dora is the child bride of the title character and dies young as a result of a miscarriage. The real Dora also died young.
The inscription reads ; Dora Annie, the ninth child of Charles and Catherine Dickens, died 14th. April 1851, aged eight months. Dora was born at 1 Devonshire Terrace, just South of Regent's Park. As her father was writing David Copperfield at the time, she was given the same name as the hero's wife.
Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, Q. C. ("Harry," 1849-1933), a Cambridge graduate, sportsman, and lawyer; father of novelist Monica Dickens. 9. Dora Annie Dickens (1850-1851), named after the first wife of David Copperfield, died in infancy on 14 April 1851. 10. Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens
Dora Annie Dickens, the daughter of Charles Dickens and Catherine Hogarth Dickens, was born on 16th August, 1850. She was named after Dora Spenlow, the dead heroine in the book David Copperfield.
Dora Annie Dickens (16 August 1850 — 14 April 1851) Charles and Catherine Dickens's ninth child and third daughter was Dora Annie Dickens (1850-1851), who lived just eight months.
Mar 9, 2022 · Dora Annie Dickens (1850-1851) - Dickens' ninth child was born during the writing of David Copperfield and was named for David's wife (Slater, 2009, p. 312). A sickly child, she died at eight months old (Ackroyd, 1990, p. 627-628).
Aug 8, 2013 · An exception is the ninth child, Dora Annie Dickens, named after the brainless girl David Copperfield loves and whom Dickens, at the moment of the child’s birth, was about to ‘kill off’ in print, thus giving his hero an easy way out of his inappropriate marriage.
Three girls and seven boys. One girl, Dora, died less than a year old. The rest of his children proved to be more or less successful. Several accumulated a great deal of debt and leaned on their famous father for help, served in the military, moved out of the country, or made their own careers.
