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. Sadly, Dora, like her fictional namesake, was not a healthy child, and she died, from a convulsion, in the house of her birth, whilst her mother was recuperating at Malvern in Worcestershire. She is buried in the same grave as her mother. In addition, the tombstone bears the names of two of her brothers : Walter, who died in Calcutta, and Sydney, who died and was buried at sea (qq.v.).
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. Sadly, Dora, like her fictional namesake, was not a healthy child, and she died, from a convulsion, in the house of her birth, whilst her mother was recuperating at Malvern in Worcestershire. She is buried in the same grave as her mother. In addition, the tombstone bears the names of two of her brothers : Walter, who died in Calcutta, and Sydney, who died and was buried at sea (qq.v.).
Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine
Family Members
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Charles Culliford Boz Dickens
1837–1896
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Mary Dickens
1838–1896
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Catherine Elizabeth Macready Dickens Perugini
1839–1929
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Walter Landor Dickens
1841–1863
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Francis Jeffrey Dickens
1844–1886
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Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens
1845–1912
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Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens
1847–1872
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Henry Fielding Dickens
1849–1933
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Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens
1851–1902
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