Mary Hogarth Pinch from "Martin Chuzzlewit"; Lilian, the child who appears in Trotty Veck's visions in "The Chimes"; and Dot Peerybingle, the sister in "The Cricket on the Hearth". Unlike Hogarth, Dickens' wife Catherine does not appear to have been the inspiration for any of his characters. Mary Hogarth Mary Scott Hogarth (26 October 1819 – 7 May 1837) was the sister of Catherine Dickens ( Hogarth) and the sister-in-law of Charles Dickens. Hogarth first met Charles Dickens aged 14, and after Dickens married Hogarth's sister Catherine, Mary lived with the couple for a year. Hogarth died suddenly in 1837, which caused
Catherine Jones (novelist) Catherine Jones (novelist) Catherine Jones, née Lace (born 25 October 1956) is a British writer of romance novels since 1990. She also wrote as Kate Lace and Fiona Field and as Annie Jones in collaboration. She is the twentyfourth elected Chairman (2007–2009) of the Romantic Novelists' Association. Born Catherine Lace on 25 October 1956, she went to an all-girls school then joined the army and served for 8 years, where she met her husband. She left the army to have their three children. She wrote her first novel, Gumboots and Pearls, in collaboration with another army wife, under the pseudonym