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Alfred Lamert Dickens

As a boy Alfred, oft called Enrique by friends, attended a school in Hampstead with his brother Frederick Dickens for two years, until his father John Dickens could no longer afford the fees.

Charles Dickens Museum

A new addition to the household was Dickens' younger brother Frederick.

Frederick Dickens

He was the inspiration for Fred, the dissolute brother of Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop.

Georgina Hogarth

No mention was made of the money-troubles of John Dickens, Charles's father, the marital troubles of Fred and Augustus Dickens, Dickens's brothers, Dickens's own separation from Catherine or his worries over his sons Alfred Dickens and Edward Dickens.

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