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Frances Elizabeth (Fanny) Dickens (28 August 1810 – 2 September 1848) was an English pianist and singer who trained at the Royal Academy of Music. She is the elder sister of Charles Dickens.
9. März 2022 · In this letter, dated July 5, 1848, to his friend John Forster, Dickens describes a visit to see his 38-year-old sister who is dying of consumption. Fanny died a few weeks later...her son followed soon after.
- Charles Dickens' Parents
- Charles Dickens' Siblings
- Charles Dickens' Wife Catherine
- Charles Dickens' Children
- Catherine Dickens' Sisters
- Charles Dickens' Friends and Associates
John Dickens (1785-1851) - Dickens' father, was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. In 1809 he married Elizabeth Barrow with whom he had eight children. John loved to live the good life but was frequently unable to pay for it. He was imprisoned for debt in 1824 in the Marshalsea Debtor's Prison. After his release from prison he returned to the Navy Pay...
Frances Elizabeth (Fanny) Dickens (August 1810-September 2, 1848) Dickens oldest sister with whom he was very close in childhood. She was a talented woman and studied music at the Royal Academy of Music. Fanny married Henry Burnett and had a crippled son, Henry Jr, whom Dickens used as a model for Paul Dombey and possibly Tiny Tim (Ackroyd, 1990, p...
Read a letterfrom Dickens to John Forster concerning separation from Catherine. Amazon.com: The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth by Lillian Nayder Back to Top
Charles Culliford (Charley) Dickens (1837-1896) - Dickens' first child, educated at Eton, and studied business in Germany. Charley was the only child who lived with his mother after Dickens' separation with Catherine in 1858. In 1862 he married Bessie Evans, daughter of Dickens' former publisher, Frederick Evans, with whom Dickens had had a falling...
Mary Hogarth (1819-1837) - Catherine's sister moved into the Dickens household in 1836, shortly after the marriage (Johnson, 1952, p. 130). At 17 she took ill after attending the theater and died suddenly in Dickens' arms. Dickens was shattered and took a ring from her finger which he wore the rest of his life (Slater, 2009, p. 100). She was the mo...
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) English novelist (Rookwood, Jack Sheppard) and influence on young Dickens. Ainsworth brought Dickens into his literary circle that included Forster, Thackeray, and Carlyle (Schlicke, 1999, p. 6). Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) Danish writer and author of Fairy Tales. Dickens and Andersen admired each othe...
Fanny Dickens died of tuberculosis of the lung, aged 38, on 2nd September, 1848. She was a Dissenter and had asked to be buried in unconsecrated ground in Highgate Cemetery . Her first son, who had always suffered from poor health, died soon afterwards.
10. März 2021 · Episode 3 of 5. Lucy Powell considers how convention was turned on its head in the life of Fanny Dickens, Charles’s older sister. Show more. Available now.
15. Juni 2022 · Fanny Dickens was the eldest of the eight children of the clerk John Dickens and his wife Elizabeth Dickens, née Barrow. Fanny was the younger sister of the famous author Charles Dickens. Her musical talent earned her a place at the Royal Academy of Music in 1823.
Musician Frances "Fanny" Dickens has had a temporary statue erected in her honor in Portsmouth, just steps away from the statue of her brother. It's one of several statues of sisters of famous men placed throughout the U.K., inspired by...
