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Portrait of Charles Dickens by Daniel Maclise, 1839. On 2 April 1836, after a one-year engagement, and between episodes two and three of The Pickwick Papers, Dickens married Catherine Thomson Hogarth (1815–1879), the daughter of George Hogarth, editor of the Evening Chronicle. [58] They were married in St Luke's Church, Chelsea, London. [59]
Catherine Dickens was the subject of the sixty-minute BBC Two documentary Mrs Dickens' Family Christmas, broadcast on 30 December 2011 and performed and presented by Sue Perkins, and which looked at the marriage of Charles Dickens through the eyes of Catherine. [20] In the 1976 TV series Dickens of London, she was portrayed by Adrienne Burgess ...
Ellen Ternan was born in Rochester, Kent, which directly adjoins the town of Dickens' childhood, Chatham.She was the third of four children; she had a brother who died in infancy and two sisters named Maria and Frances (later the second wife of Thomas Adolphus Trollope, the brother of Anthony Trollope).
After a misunderstanding which leads her to believe that Pickwick has proposed marriage to her, she starts a breach of promise action against him, encouraged by the unscrupulous attorneys Dodson and Fogg. Bardell, Thomas is the son of Martha Bardell in The Pickwick Papers. Barkis A carrier between Blunderstone and Yarmouth. He marries Clara ...
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812–1870), novelist, married Catherine Hogarth (1815–1879) Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (1837–1896), editor and writer, married Elizabeth Matilda Moule Evans Mary Angela Dickens (1862–1948), journalist and novelist and writer of Children's Stories from Dickens [ 1 ]
Miss Havisham is a character in Charles Dickens's 1861 novel Great Expectations. She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life. She lives in a ruined mansion with her adopted daughter, Estella. Dickens describes her as looking like "the witch of the place".
Estella Havisham (married name Estella Drummle) is a significant character in Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations. [1]Like the protagonist, Pip, Estella is introduced as an orphan, but where Pip was raised by his sister and her husband to become a blacksmith, Estella was adopted and raised by the wealthy and eccentric Miss Havisham to become a lady.
Mary Scott Hogarth (26 October 1819 [a] – 7 May 1837 [b]) was the sister of Catherine Dickens (née Hogarth) and the sister-in-law of Charles Dickens.Hogarth first met Charles Dickens at age 14, and after Dickens married Hogarth's sister Catherine, Mary lived with the couple for a year.