Catherine Dickens numerous—all of which he strenuously denied. In June 1858 Charles and Catherine Dickens separated. The exact cause of the separation is unknown, although attention at the time and since has focused on rumours of an affair between Dickens and Ellen Ternan and/or Catherine's sister, Georgina Hogarth. A bracelet intended for Ellen Ternan had supposedly been delivered to the Dickens household some months previously, leading to accusation and denial. Dickens' friend, William Makepeace Thackeray, later asserted that Dickens's separation from Catherine was due to a liaison with Ternan, rather than with Georgina Hogarth as had been put to him. This remark
The Bench (Hogarth) Vinci – with his version of some Raphael characters (from the Cartoons) and a hundred of his own character profiles. After Hogarth's death the subscription ticket was reproduced as print in its own right, minus the subscription details for "Marriage a-la-mode", and came to be known as "Characters and Caricaturas" (from the inscription Hogarth had added at the foot of the original). Hogarth intended to formally address the point with "The Bench" by creating a print for sale that showed characters, caricatures and "outré". Hogarth dismissed "outré" as a subset of caricature, but considered caricature to be as far below