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Catherine Thomson "Kate" Dickens (née Hogarth; 19 May 1815 – 22 November 1879) was the wife of English novelist Charles Dickens, the mother of his ten children, and a writer of domestic management.
May 19, 2016 · Catherine was an author, actress and cook – all of which was eclipsed by her marriage. Lucinda Hawksley, Catherine’s great-great-great-granddaughter, explores who she really was.
Feb 27, 2019 · A recently discovered trove of letters reveals that Charles tried to institutionalize his wife Catherine Dickens for no medical reason. Dickens had begun an affair with an 18-year-old actress and separated from his wife when he attempted to have her institutionalized as a 'lunatic'.
Feb 22, 2019 · Trove of Letters Reveal Charles Dickens Tried to Lock His Wife Away in an Asylum. Catherine’s side of the breakup tale comes back with vengeance thanks to new analysis of 98 previously unseen...
Jul 11, 2024 · After 22 years of marriage and 10 children, Charles Dickens famously dumped his wife, Catherine Dickens, in 1858. Wielding the power of his pen, he alleged that Catherine was mentally unbalanced and an unfit wife and mother; in truth, he wanted to take up with a younger woman, actress Ellen Ternan. For years, critics and biographers took his ...
Jul 20, 2019 · Catherine Dickens is far less known than her legendary husband, Charles. When you think about Victorian novels, his name is the first one to pop up. But the ...
The daughter and granddaughter of cultured Scotsmen and women — intellectuals, writers, and musicians who highly valued family life — Catherine Hogarth was an animated and well-read nineteen-year-old, a devoted sister and cousin....
Catherine Dickens. Charles Dickens, young and unattached, was also employed by the Morning Chronicle. His first romantic relationship, with Maria Beadnell, had ended badly. However he was quite recovered and was quickly taken with Catherine. They met in 1834, became engaged in 1835 and were married in April of 1836.
Catherine Thomson Hogarth was born on 19 May 1815, the daughter of George Hogarth Esquire WS [Writer to the Signet] and Mrs Georgina Thomson his spouse, St Andrews Parish. The entry in...
by Frankie Kubicki. In February 1835, Catherine Hogarth celebrated Charles Dickens’s twenty-third birthday at his London lodgings. Only nineteen years old, she described the party and its host to a cousin. ‘Mr. Dickens improves very much on acquaintance,’ she wrote, and is ‘very gentlemanly and pleasant.’.
