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 Isabella Dodd Catherine Isabella Dodd Catherine Isabella or Isabel Dodd (8 April 1860 – 13 November 1932) was an English educationist, novelist and education writer. In 1892 she became the first woman on the academic staff of Victoria University of Manchester, as a lecturer in education. Catherine Dodd was born in Birmingham, the only daughter among the four children of the businessman Thomas Milner Dodd and his wife Christian (née Kelly). She attended a private girls' school and then studied elementary education at Swansea Training College. Dodd taught initially at several schools, and from 1892 at Owens College, part of Victoria University