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
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