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Catherine Dickens by Samuel Lawrence (1838). [1] Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1815, Catherine moved to England with her family in 1824. She was the eldest daughter of ten children to George Hogarth. Her father was a journalist for the Edinburgh Courant, and later became a writer and music critic for the Morning Chronicle, where Dickens was a ...
Learn about Catherine Dickens (née Hogarth), the eldest daughter of a Scottish music critic and editor, who married Charles Dickens in 1836 and had ten children with him. Explore her early life, marriage, estrangement, and death, as well as her relationship with her famous husband and his works.
Newly analyzed letters show that Dickens tried to lock his wife away in an asylum after he left her for another woman. The letters also expose his gaslighting and the public backlash he faced for his behavior.
Learn about the happy and unhappy years of Charles Dickens' marriage to Catherine Hogarth, and how he met and fell in love with Ellen Ternan. Find out how he tried to explain the separation to the public and how it affected his life and his children.
Feb 20, 2019 · A professor discovered 98 letters that show Charles Dickens tried to have his wife Catherine committed to a lunatic asylum in 1864. The letters also expose Dickens's affair with Ellen Ternan and Catherine's suffering from cancer.