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Dickens in Discover Dickens' life and work depicted graphically. Catherine Dickens Catherine Hogarth Dickens - Charles Dickens' wife, with whom he fathered 10 children. She was born in Scotland on May 19, and came to England with her family in Catherine was the daughter of George Hogarth , editor of the Evening Chronicle where Dickens was a young journalist.

They were married on April 2, in St. Luke's Church, Chelsea and honeymooned in Chalk, near Chatham. Charles was undoubtably in love at the outset but his feelings for Catherine wained as the family grew.

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With the birth of their last child in Dickens found Catherine an increasingly incompetent mother and housekeeper Johnson, , p. Their separation, in , was much publicized and rumors of Dickens unfaithfulness abounded, which he vehemently denied in public. Dickens and Catherine had little correspondence after the break, Catherine moving to a house in London with oldest son, Charley , and Dickens retreating to Gads Hill in Kent with Catherine's sister, Georgina , and all of the children except Charlie remaining with him.