Mary Hogarth Dickens' first child was named Mary in her memory. Hogarth was the daughter of George Hogarth (1783–1870), a music critic, cellist and composer, and Georgina Hogarth Thompson (1793–1863). She was born in Edinburgh, where her father was a legal advisor to Walter Scott, whom the young Charles Dickens greatly admired. She was the fourth of ten children, and the third daughter. Hogarth was named after her paternal grandmother. The name Mary Scott had previously been given to George and Georgina's third child, born 1817 or 1818, who was an infant when she died. Mary and her sister Catherine first met
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