Catherine Dickens
Family Member
Wife of the iconic author Charles Dickens. She grew up in Scotland as the oldest of ten children of Edinburgh newspaper editor George Hogarth.
She met Dickens through her father, who edited a newspaper for which Dickens wrote several pieces.
She traveled all over the world with her husband and supported all of his literary endeavors.
She had ten children with Charles Dickens: Charles, Kate, Walter, Mary, Alfred, Francis, Henry, Sydney, Edward, and Dora.
She married Charles Dickens when he was starting to serialize his first novel.