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After the 1842 trip to America, Catherine’s sister Georgina came to live with the couple. Catherine was becoming overwhelmed with the duties of being the wife of a famous man and caring for their children. Georgina stepped in to fill the gaps and eventually ran the Dickens household.
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 · In February 1835, Charles Dickens had a party for his 23rd birthday. Catherine Hogarth, the daughter of his magazine editor, was one of the guests.
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'.
After an engagement of almost two years, she married Charles Dickens on 2 April 1836 in St. Luke's Church, Chelsea, and enjoyed a brief honeymoon at Chalk, near Chatham in Kent.
Catherine was the daughter of George Hogarth, one of the first editors of Charles Dickens whom she married in 1836. Dickens appears to have married Catherine more out of a sense of affectionate expediency than love.
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Charles and Catherine married in Chelsea on 2 April 1836. They visited Scotland in 1841 and toured America together as his success and fame grew. They had ten children and the workload eventually...
