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Francis Jeffrey Dickens (15 January 1844 – 11 June 1886) was the third son and fifth child of Victorian English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine Dickens née Hogarth. [1] Early life and career.
Learn about the life and career of Francis Jeffrey Dickens, the fifth child of Charles Dickens and a police officer in Canada. He served in the North West Mounted Police during the turbulent years of the 1880s and witnessed the Frog Lake Massacre.
His unspectacular career was marked by recklessness, laziness and heavy drinking. He retired in 1886 and died shortly thereafter. Dickens can be blamed for worsening relations between the Blackfoot and the NWMP and for the growing antipathy of the officer cadre toward Englishmen.
DICKENS, FRANCIS JEFFREY, NWMP officer; b. 15 Jan. 1844 at London, England, fifth child and third son of Charles Dickens and Catherine Hogarth; d. unmarried 11 June 1886 at Moline, Ill. Francis Jeffrey Dickens inherited none of his famous father’s literary talent. He was educated at a school for English boys at Boulogne, France, but did ...
Charles John Huffam Dickens (Portsmouth, 7 de fevereiro de 1812 – Higham, 9 de junho de 1870) foi o mais popular dos romancistas ingleses da era vitoriana. [1] No início de sua atividade literária também adotou o apelido Boz.
12 de mar. de 2016 · One of the first officers of the newly formed North-West Mounted Police, Francis Dickens, son of novelist Charles Dickens, was noted for his famous parentage, if not much else. Written by Vic Parsons — Posted March 12, 2016
Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈ d ɪ k ɪ n z /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
