Catherine Dickens 2013 film "The Invisible Woman" she was portrayed by Joanna Scanlan. In the 2017 film "The Man Who Invented Christmas" she was portrayed by Morfydd Clark. Catherine Dickens Catherine Thomson "Kate" Dickens ("née" Hogarth; 19 May 1815 – 22 November 1879) was the wife of English novelist Charles Dickens, and the mother of his ten children. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1815, Catherine came to England with her family in 1824. She was the eldest daughter of 10 children to George Hogarth. Her father was a journalist for the "Edinburgh Courant", and later became a writer and music critic for
David George Hogarth Jane Elizabeth (Uppleby) Hogarth. He had a sister three years younger, Janet E. Courtney, an author and feminist. In one of his autobiographical works, Hogarth claimed to be an antiquary who was made so, rather than born to it. He said, "nothing disposed me to my trade in early years." Those years included a secondary education, 1876–1880, at Winchester College, which claims to be, and was labelled by Hogarth as, "our oldest Public School." In October 1881, Hogarth matriculated into Magdalen College, Oxford to study "Literae Humaniores". He achieved first class honours in both Mods (1882) and Greats (1885). He