Georgina Hogarth Dickens's brothers, Dickens's own separation from Catherine or his worries over his sons Alfred Dickens and Edward Dickens. What was unusual, however, was the editors' methods: if cuts were made in one letter leaving passages stranded, these passages were inserted in letters of a later date. In the Preface Georgina Hogarth and Mary Dickens stated: "We intend this Collection of Letters to be a Supplement to the "Life of Charles Dickens," by John Forster. That work, perfect and exhaustive as a biography, is only incomplete as regards correspondence; the scheme of the book having made it impossible to include in
The Bench (Hogarth) The Bench (Hogarth) The Bench is the title of both a 1758 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Hogarth, and a print issued by him in the same year. Unlike many of Hogarth's engravings produced from painted originals, the print differs considerably from the painting. It was intended as a demonstration of the differences between character painting, caricature and "outré"—developing on the theme he had begun to address in "Characters and Caricaturas" (his subscription ticket for "Marriage à-la-mode")—but Hogarth was unhappy with the result as it showed only "characters", and he continued to work on the piece until his