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3 unusual facts about Catherine Dickens


Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens

Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (28 October 1845 – 2 January 1912) was the sixth child and fourth son of British novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine.

Catherine Dickens

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.

She was the eldest daughter of George Hogarth, who was a music critic for the Morning Chronicle where Dickens was a young journalist and later the editor of the Evening Chronicle.



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