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  1. Georgina Hogarth (22 January 1827 – 19 April 1917) was the sister-in-law, housekeeper, and adviser of English novelist Charles Dickens and the editor of three volumes of his collected letters after his death.

  2. Feb 15, 2024 · Who Was Georgina Hogarth, Charles Dickens’ ‘Best and Truest Friend’? Unpublished letters reveal new insights into the baffling relationship between the English novelist and his sister-in-law

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  3. Feb 7, 2024 · Georgina Hogarth, sister-in-law, housekeeper, and confidante, lived with Charles Dickens from 1842, when she was aged 15, until Dickens’s death in 1870. The writer was dogged by affair...

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  4. May 3, 2024 · Georgina Hogarth was Charles Dickens’s sister in law. At 15 the sharp and witty girl moved into the Dickens family home where she stayed for 28 years. What began as a father–daughter...

  5. Apr 19, 2023 · Georgina Hogarth lived with Charles Dickens for twenty-eight years, controversially remaining in his household when he separated from his wife, Catherine. She is most often described as his housekeeper, but Dickens called her his ‘best and truest friend’, and Georgina was with him when he had a fatal stroke at their Gad’s Hill home.

  6. An online resource that publishes, free of charge, all the new, unpublished correspondence of Charles Dickens that comes to light. Browse the letters of one of the most famous authors in history to learn more about Victorian domestic, financial, social, political and literary history.

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  8. Jun 2, 2024 · Having moved in with her married sister at the age of fifteen, Georgina lived in the novelist's household for twenty-eight years – and then survived him by another forty-seven. Skelton compresses more than half of Georgina's long life into a single (albeit lengthy) chapter.

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