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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.
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.
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'.
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.
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...
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....
The documents, on view at the Charles Dickens Museum in Kings Cross, reveal the enduring love that the author’s wife Catherine—from whom he had brutally separated—had for their children.
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.’.
Professor of English Lillian Nayder’s new biography The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth –the first comprehensive portrait of the woman whom Charles Dickens married and then repudiated — is now available online and in bookstores from Cornell University Press.
Catherine Dickens, for all intents and purposes, is gone, painted right out of the picture. That’s not to say that nobody’s been looking for her. There’s been a move, in recent years, to reclaim the lives of the wives of Great Men, and often, as in Franny Moyle’s fun biography of Constance Wilde, the results are wonderful.