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
Hogarth Press respectively. The Hogarth Press produced a number of publication series that were affordable as well as being attractively bound and printed, and usually commissioned from well known authors. These include the initial "Hogarth Essays" in three series 1924–1947 (36 titles), "Hogarth Lectures on Literature" (2 series 1927–1951), "Merttens Lectures on War and Peace" (8 titles 1927–1936), "Hogarth Living Poets" (29 titles 1928–1937), "Day to Day Pamphlets" (1930–1939), "Hogarth Letters" (12 titles 1931–1933) and "World-Makers and World-Shakers" (4 titles 1937). The "Essays" were the first series produced by the press and include works by Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf and Gertrude Stein.