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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.
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. Both, in their father’s opinion, lacked application and staying power, which would be remedied by a colonial experience.
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, Dickens made lecture tours in Australia, Europe, and the United States on his father's life and work.
Feb 8, 2024 · Aged just 19, Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens arrived in Australia in 1865 but he was never to see his father again. Charles died just a few years later in 1870, but the author sent Alfred enough ...
Mar 10, 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.
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 late 1845, Dickens was ‘greatly delighted when Alfred travelled two hundred miles to be present at the famous performance of Everyman in His Humour by “Boz’s” amateur company at the St. James’s Theatre, and in the spring the poet, with Count D’Orsay, acted as godfather to [Dickens’s] fourth son, portentously christened ...
