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
The Bench (Hogarth) Vinci – with his version of some Raphael characters (from the Cartoons) and a hundred of his own character profiles. After Hogarth's death the subscription ticket was reproduced as print in its own right, minus the subscription details for "Marriage a-la-mode", and came to be known as "Characters and Caricaturas" (from the inscription Hogarth had added at the foot of the original). Hogarth intended to formally address the point with "The Bench" by creating a print for sale that showed characters, caricatures and "outré". Hogarth dismissed "outré" as a subset of caricature, but considered caricature to be as far below