The Other Dickens : : A Life of Catherine Hogarth /

The Other Dickens : : A Life of Catherine Hogarth / / Lillian Nayder.

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Catherine Hogarth, who came from a cultured Scots family, married Charles Dickens in 1836, the same year he began serializing his first novel. Together they traveled widely, entertained frequently, and raised ten children. In 1858, the celebrated writer pressured Catherine to leave their home, unjus...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Nayder, Lillian,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 26 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Constructing Catherine Dickens
  • 1. "The Mind of Woman Occasionally Asserts Its Powers": Catherine Hogarth among Enlightened Patriarchs, 1815-1835
  • 2. Becoming Galatea: Courtship and Marriage, 1835-1837. Interlude I. "The Girls Hogarth": Catherine and Mary
  • 3. "Their Voices, Mr. Dickens's Imperative": Mesmerized, 1837-1842
  • 4. "Their Voices, Mrs. Dickens's Expostulatory": Disentranced, 1843-1847
  • 5. "Richer in That Respect": Overbearings, 1848-1852. Interlude II. "Catherine Georgina"; or, What's in a Name?
  • 6. The Meaning of "Our": Sleights of Hand, 1853-1858
  • 7. "As If She Were Sole and Unmarried": Separation, 1858-1870. Interlude III. "Forget Me Not": Catherine and Helen
  • 8. Last Wills and Last Words: Widowhood, 1870-1879
  • Afterword: "Suttee Business"
  • Primary Sources
  • Index

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