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) death. Hogarth had often been accused of being a caricaturist, but regarded this as a slur on his work. In his book on art, "The Analysis of Beauty", Hogarth claimed that the critics had branded all his women as harlots and all his men as caricatures. He complained: He had made an early attempt to address what he perceived as a mistake on the part of his critics with the subscription ticket for his 1743 series "Marriage à-la-mode", on which he contrasted a number of his reproductions of classical caricatures – from Annibale Carracci, Pier Leone Ghezzi and Leonardo da