Georgina Hogarth often expressed to her sense of affectionate care and devotion in her home – never more strongly than within the last twelve months. One day in the same year, William Makepeace Thackeray asserted that Dickens's separation from Catherine was due to a liaison with an actress, Ellen Ternan, rather than with Georgina Hogarth as had been put to him. This remark coming to Dickens' attention, Dickens was so infuriated that it almost put an end to the Dickens-Thackeray friendship. With rumours that he and Georgina Hogarth were having an affair circulating, Dickens family history allegedly had it that a doctor's
Before and After (Hogarth) Before and After (Hogarth) Before and After is a pair of comic paintings by British painter William Hogarth. He made two painted versions in 1730-31. The first version show an exterior scene in a wooded glade, based on contemporary French pastoral fête galante, while a second version move the scene indoors. Hogarth made an engravings based on the second version in 1736. In each pair, based on the position and appearance of the subjects, the first painting shows the couple before and the second after sexual intercourse. The first version, painted 1730–31, is now held by the Fitzwilliam Museum in