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
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