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Why: I accidentally just watched all of Garfield: The Movie on ABC Family. During the closing credits, there was a thing about A Christmas Carol (which looks awesome, btw). I wonder if Charles Dickens named his kids things like Ebenezer and Martin Chuzzlewit and Mr. Bumble.
Answer: Yes! TEN! Their names are:
- Charles Culliford Boz Dickens
- Mary Dickens
- Kate Macready Dickens
- Walter Landor Dickens
- Francis Jeffrey Dickens
- Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens
- Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens
- Sir Henry Fielding Dickens
- Dora Annie Dickens
- Edward Dickens
The More You Know: Those are all pretty nermal (lol) except "Boz," which was Dickens's pseudonym:
Dickens said that Boz was 'the nickname of a pet child, a younger brother, whom I had dubbed Moses, in honour of Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, which, being pronounced Bozes, got shortened into Boz'. The real name of the brother was Augustus. Dickens' own son was christened Charles Culliford Boz Dickens.
Dickens used a pen-name for his first stories because he was, at the time, a serious political columnist, and the lightweight sketches and stories he first published might have damaged his credibility.
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