Georgina Hogarth Georgina Hogarth Georgina Hogarth (22 January 1827 – 19 April 1917) was the sister-in-law, housekeeper, and adviser of English novelist Charles Dickens and the editor of three volumes of his collected letters after his death. 'Georgy' Hogarth was one of 10 children born in Scotland to music critic George Hogarth and his wife Georgina. In 1834, Georgy and her family moved to England where her father had taken a job as a music critic for "The Morning Chronicle". In 1842, aged 15, Georgy Hogarth joined the Dickens family household when Dickens and his wife Catherine (born Hogarth), sailed to America
Catherine Gore of the Day" (1830), "Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb" (1841), and "The Banker's Wife" (1843). She wrote articles in "Bentley's Miscellany" under the pseudonym "Albany Poyntz". She also wrote for the stage, and composed music. Gore's 1861 obituary in "The Times" concluded that Gore was "the best novel writer of her class and the wittiest woman of her age." Catherine Gore Catherine Grace Frances Gore (née Moody; 12 February 1798 – 29 January 1861) was a prolific English novelist and dramatist, daughter of a wine merchant of Retford. She is among the best known of the silver fork