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 Jones (novelist) Catherine Jones (novelist) Catherine Jones, née Lace (born 25 October 1956) is a British writer of romance novels since 1990. She also wrote as Kate Lace and Fiona Field and as Annie Jones in collaboration. She is the twentyfourth elected Chairman (2007–2009) of the Romantic Novelists' Association. Born Catherine Lace on 25 October 1956, she went to an all-girls school then joined the army and served for 8 years, where she met her husband. She left the army to have their three children. She wrote her first novel, Gumboots and Pearls, in collaboration with another army wife, under the pseudonym