Catherine Dickens 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 the "Morning Chronicle", where Dickens was a young journalist, and later the editor of the "Evening Chronicle". Catherine and Dickens became engaged in 1835 and were
Christine Hogarth Marianne Matichuk. In 2004, Hogarth was seeking the federal nomination of the Conservative Party of Canada in the riding of Thunder Bay—Rainy River, but withdrew her name at the last minute for "personal reasons". In 2017 she declared her candidacy for the Etobicoke—Lakeshore seat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, against the incumbent, Peter Milczyn. She received the endorsement of Patrick Brown, then-leader the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. On June 29th, 2018, Hogarth was appointed as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, with a responsibility for the Housing portfolio. Christine Hogarth Christine Hogarth is a Canadian