Augustus Dickens [SEP] medical condition
it was, he wasted his slender income on liquor". The paper claimed that several letters were written begging Dickens to come to Chicago to see his brother's plight, but that, to avoid having to meet his brother and his family, Charles Dickens avoided Chicago when he visited the United States on his reading tours. In reality, though, Augustus was already dead by the time Dickens' American tour was even announced.
Augustus Dickens died from tuberculosis in America aged 39 and was buried in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago
. His older brother Charles Dickens supported both of Augustus's wives financially.
His mistress, Bertha Phillips, was said to have committed suicide on 24 December 1868 by taking an overdose of morphine, although she was taking morphine for a medical condition and probably took an overdose by mistake.
Siblings of Augustus Dickens.
- Frances (Fanny) Elizabeth Dickens (1810–1848)
- Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812–1870)
- Letitia Dickens (1816–1893)
- Harriet Dickens (1819–1824)
- Frederick William Dickens