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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.
May 19, 2016 · With its new exhibition The Other Dickens, London’s Charles Dickens Museum has given Catherine back her identity. Charles Dickens Museum Detail from Daniel Maclise’s 1847 painting of Catherine ...
Feb 27, 2019 · The dissolution of the 22-year marriage between Charles Dickens and his wife, Catherine Dickens, has been well-documented — as has the famed author’s cruelty towards his wife. But as a slew of newly discovered letters show, Dickens was petty enough during his separation that he went so far as to try to have his sane wife committed to an asylum.
However, it really happened to Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. Catherine Hogarth, the eldest daughter of George and Georgina Hogarth, was born in Scotland. In 1834 she and her family moved to England where her father had taken a job as a music critic for the Morning Chronicle .
Catherine Dickens died at her home on Gloucester Crescent on the morning of 21 November 1879, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery, London, in the same grave as her infant daughter Dora, who had died eighteen years earlier. The Will of Catherine Thomson ("Kate") Dickens (née Hogarth. Much has been made of the will.
Apr 20, 2016 · We all know about Charles Dickens, but what about his long-suffering wife Catherine? Ahead of a new exhibition about Mrs Dickens at the Charles Dickens Museum, curator Louisa Price spills the ...
Aug 26, 2024 · The letters from Catherine destroy Dickens’s claim that Catherine was “a cold and distant mother”. They ache with warmth for her children and longing to see them more often.
Feb 20, 2019 · Analysis of previously unseen letters has shed new light on Charles Dickens’s troubled relationship with his wife Catherine – revealing at one point he attempted to have her committed to a mental asylum.
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...
By expanding our collections that relate to Catherine Dickens nee Hogarth, we aim to re-examine this important figure and foster new research about Catherine as a significant figure in her own right. Over 140 years after her death, the search for the true Catherine Dickens has only just begun.
