Catherine Dickens

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{{Infobox person
| name = Catherine Dickens
| image = Catherine-dickens-young.png
| birth_name = Catherine Thomson Hogarth
| birth_date = {{birth date|1815|5|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Edinburgh]], Scotland
| death_date = {{death date and age|1879|11|22|1815|5|19|df=y}}
| death_place = [[London]], England
| resting_place = [[Highgate Cemetery]], [[London]], England
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Charles Dickens]] |1836|1858|end={{abbr|sep.|separated}}}}
| children = [[Charles Culliford Boz Dickens]] [[Mary Dickens]] [[Kate Perugini|Kate Macready Dickens]] [[Walter Landor Dickens]] [[Francis Jeffrey Dickens]] [[Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens]] [[Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens]] [[Henry Fielding Dickens|Sir Henry Fielding Dickens]] [[Dora Annie Dickens]] [[Edward Dickens]]
| parents = [[George Hogarth]] Georgina Thomson
| known_for = Wife of English novelist Charles Dickens
}}

'''Catherine Thomson "Kate" Dickens''' ([[Given name#Name at birth|née]] '''Hogarth'''; 19 May 1815 – 22 November 1879) was the wife of English novelist [[Charles Dickens]], and the mother of his ten children.

she is now dead

==Separation==
[[Image:Catherine Hogarth-oil.jpg|thumb|200px|Catherine Dickens {{circa}} 1847 by [[Daniel Maclise]]]]

In June 1858, Charles and Catherine Dickens separated. The exact cause of the separation is unknown, although attention at the time and since has focused on rumours of an affair between Dickens and [[Ellen Ternan]] and/or Catherine's sister, [[Georgina Hogarth]].

A bracelet intended for Ellen Ternan had supposedly been delivered to the Dickens household some months previously, leading to accusation and denial. Dickens' friend, [[William Makepeace Thackeray]], later asserted that Dickens's separation from Catherine was due to a liaison with Ternan, rather than with Georgina Hogarth as had been put to him. This remark coming to Dickens' attention, Dickens was so infuriated that it almost put an end to the Dickens–Thackeray friendship.<ref name=online>{{cite book|author=Nisbet, Ada|title=Dickens and Ellen Ternan|publisher=University of California Press|date=1952}}</ref>

Georgina, Charles and all of the children except [[Charles Dickens, Jr.]], remained in their home at [[Tavistock House]], while Catherine and Charles Jr. moved out. Georgina Hogarth ran Dickens' household. On 12 June 1858, he published an article in his journal, ''[[Household Words]]'', denying rumours about the separation while neither articulating them nor clarifying the situation.

{{quote |Some domestic trouble of mine, of long-standing, on which I will make no further remark than that it claims to be respected, as being of a sacredly private nature, has lately been brought to an arrangement, which involves no anger or ill-will of any kind, and the whole origin, progress, and surrounding circumstances of which have been, throughout, within the knowledge of my children. It is amicably composed, and its details have now to be forgotten by those concerned in it... By some means, arising out of wickedness, or out of folly, or out of inconceivable wild chance, or out of all three, this trouble has been the occasion of misrepresentations, mostly grossly false, most monstrous, and most cruel – involving, not only me, but innocent persons dear to my heart... I most solemnly declare, then – and this I do both in my own name and in my wife's name – that all the lately whispered rumours touching the trouble, at which I have glanced, are abominably false. And whosoever repeats one of them after this denial, will lie as wilfully and as foully as it is possible for any false witness to lie, before heaven and earth.}}

He sent this statement to the newspapers, including ''[[The Times]]'', and many reprinted it. He fell out with [[Bradbury and Evans]], his publishers, because they refused to publish his statement in ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'' as they thought it unsuitable for a humorous periodical. Another public statement appeared in the ''[[New York Tribune]]'', which later found its way into several British newspapers. In this statement, Dickens declared that it had been only [[Georgina Hogarth]] who had held the family together for some time:

{{quote |...I will merely remark of [my wife] that some peculiarity of her character has thrown all the children on someone else. I do not know – I cannot by any stretch of fancy imagine – what would have become of them but for this aunt, who has grown up with them, to whom they are devoted, and who has sacrificed the best part of her youth and life to them. She has remonstrated, reasoned, suffered, and toiled, again and again, to prevent a separation between Mrs. Dickens and me. Mrs. Dickens has often expressed to her sense of affectionate care and devotion in her home – never more strongly than within the last twelve months.<ref>''Household Words''. 12 June 1858.</ref>}}

==Later years==
[[Image:Catherine Dickens in 1852.jpg|thumb|right|[[Daguerreotype]], taken in 1852]]
Dickens and Catherine had little correspondence after their separation, but she remained attached and loyal to her husband and to his memory until her own death from cancer. On her deathbed in 1879, Catherine gave the collection of letters she had received from Dickens to her daughter [[Kate Perugini|Kate]], telling her to "Give these to the [[British Library|British Museum]] – that the world may know [Charles] loved me once".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Slater |first1=Michael |year=1983 |title=Dickens and Women |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GyuH6-eZZaQC&pg=PA159&dq=%22British+Museum+that+the+world+may+know%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22British%20Museum%20that%20the%20world%20may%20know%22&f=false |location=Stanford |publisher=Stanford University Press |page=159 |isbn=0460042483 |access-date=26 September 2016 }}</ref>

Catherine Dickens was buried in [[Highgate Cemetery]] in London with her infant daughter [[Dora Annie Dickens|Dora]], who had died in 1851 aged nearly 8 months.

==In the media==
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.<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Two - Mrs Dickens' Family Christmas |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018nt6m |website=BBC |accessdate=18 April 2019}}</ref>

In the 1976 series ''[[Dickens of London]]'', she was portrayed by [[Adrienne Burgess]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pointer |first1=Michael |title=Charles Dickens on the Screen: The Film, Television, and Video Adaptations |date=1996 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810829602 |page=177 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tsRlXug0lMsC&pg=PA177|language=en}}</ref>

In the 2013 film ''[[The Invisible Woman (2013 film)|The Invisible Woman]]'', she was portrayed by [[Joanna Scanlan]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shoard |first1=Catherine |title=The Invisible Woman – Toronto 2013: first look review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/06/the-invisible-woman-toronto-2013-review |website=The Guardian |accessdate=18 April 2019 |date=6 September 2013}}</ref>

In the 2017 film ''[[The Man Who Invented Christmas (film)|The Man Who Invented Christmas]]'', she was portrayed by [[Morfydd Clark]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Review {{!}} ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’ looks at the birth of ‘A Christmas Carol’ |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/the-man-who-invented-christmas-looks-at-the-birthing-of-a-christmas-carol/2017/11/17/d3546d44-ca4a-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html |website=Washington Post |accessdate=18 April 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Nayder, Lillian (2011). [https://books.google.com/books?id=RnqgfWsoIXwC&dq=The+Other+Dickens+:+a+life+of+Catherine+Hogarth&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth''], Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-8014-4787-7}}. Disputes Charles Dickens' claim that Catherine was an unfit wife and mother.

==External links==
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*[http://charlesdickenspage.com/family_friends.html Catherine Dickens on the Charles Dickens Page]
*[http://www.perryweb.com/Dickens/life_marry.shtml The Marriage of Charles Dickens]
*{{Find a Grave|11177243}}

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