Catherine 'Kate' Thomson Dickens (née Hogarth) (May 19 1815 – 22 November 1879) was the wife of English novelist Charles Dickens, with whom he fathered 10 children.
Born in Edinburgh in Scotland in 1815, Catherine came to England with her family in 1834. She was the eldest daughter of George Hogarth, editor of the Evening Chronicle where Dickens was a young journalist. They became engaged in 1835 and were married on April 2, 1836 in St. Luke's Ch...
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Catherine 'Kate' Thomson Dickens (née Hogarth) (May 19 1815 – 22 November 1879) was the wife of English novelist Charles Dickens, with whom he fathered 10 children.
Born in Edinburgh in Scotland in 1815, Catherine came to England with her family in 1834. She was the eldest daughter of George Hogarth, editor of the Evening Chronicle where Dickens was a young journalist. They became engaged in 1835 and were married on April 2, 1836 in St. Luke's Church, Chelsea and honeymooned in Chalk, near Chatham in Kent, where Dickens had spent part of his youth. They set up home in Bloomsbury, and went on to have ten children:
Catherine's sister Mary Hogarth entered Dickens's Doughty Street household to offer support to her newly married sister and brother-in-law. It was not unusual for the unwed sister of a new wife to live with and help a newly married couple. Dickens became very attached to Mary, and she died after a brief illness in his arms in 1837. She became a character in many of his books,...
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