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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.
20 de ene. de 2012 · El escritor replicó que sí ayudaba a la señora de Augustus Dickens, la auténtica, la abandonada en Inglaterra por el hermano descarriado. La viuda de Chicago se suicidó al año siguiente.
23 de dic. de 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:
4 de feb. de 2012 · Londres ·. Citas. Novias despechadas, malos entrañables... y sombrillas. por RAQUEL QUÍLEZ. Arquetipos que saltaron del papel. Alrededor de 1.000 creaciones salieron de la pluma de Dickens. —el...
11 de sept. de 2018 · London, Middlesex, England. Death: October 04, 1866 (38) Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States (died from tuberculosis in Chicago, America) Place of Burial: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States. Immediate Family: Son of John Dickens and Elizabeth Cuilliford Dickens. Husband of Harriett Dickens.
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".
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was the first novel by English author Charles Dickens.His previous work was Sketches by Boz, published in 1836, and his publisher Chapman & Hall asked Dickens to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour, and to connect them into a novel.
