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
Ian Hogarth Ian Hogarth Ian Hogarth is the co-founder and Chairman of Songkick. Hogarth studied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. Hogarth founded live music startup Songkick with friends Michelle You and Pete Smith in 2007. Smith and Hogarth met at Cambridge, Hogarth and You met in Beijing; they shared a love of live music and formed Songkick, which was part of the 2007 Y Combinator program in Boston. They chose to set up the company in London because it "is the gig capital of the world. London has more concerts than anywhere else." Hogarth and his fellow Songkick co-founders were