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
Catherine Gore of the Day" (1830), "Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb" (1841), and "The Banker's Wife" (1843). She wrote articles in "Bentley's Miscellany" under the pseudonym "Albany Poyntz". She also wrote for the stage, and composed music. Gore's 1861 obituary in "The Times" concluded that Gore was "the best novel writer of her class and the wittiest woman of her age." Catherine Gore Catherine Grace Frances Gore (née Moody; 12 February 1798 – 29 January 1861) was a prolific English novelist and dramatist, daughter of a wine merchant of Retford. She is among the best known of the silver fork