Charles Dickens: A Life (4 page)

Catherine Thomson Hogarth, later Dickens
(1815–79), eldest of the ten children of
George Hogarth
(1783–1870), Edinburgh lawyer and musician turned journalist, and his wife
Georgina
née
Thomson
(1793–1863), married in 1814. Younger children included
Mary Scott
(1819–37),
Georgina
(1827–1917), Helen, George, Robert, William.

The Children of Dickens and Catherine née Hogarth

Charles Culliford Boz (Charley)
(1837–96), businessman, married 1861 Bessie Evans (1838–1907), six daughters one son, Ethel, Charles Walter, Sydney Margaret, Dorothy, Beatrice, Cecil Mary, Evelyn.

Mary (Mamie)
(1838–96).

Kate Macready (Katey)
(1839–1929), artist, married [1] 1860 Charles Collins
q.v.
[2] 1874 Carlo Perugini (1839–1918), one son died in infancy.

Walter Landor
(1841–63), Indian Army 1857.

Francis Jeffrey (Frank)
(1844–86), to India 1863, Bengal Mounted Police, to Canada 1871, North West Mounted Police.

Alfred D’Orsay Tennyson
(1845–1912), to Australia 1865, station manager, etc., married 1873 Augusta Jessie Devlin (1849–78), two daughters.

Sydney Smith Haldimand
(1847–72), naval officer.

Henry Fielding
(1849–1933), lawyer, married 1876 Marie-Thérèse Roche, seven children.

Dora Annie
(1850–51).

Edward Bulwer Lytton (Plorn)
(1852–1902), to Australia 1868, married 1880 Constance Desailly.

The Ternan Family

Mrs Frances
née
Jarman (1802–73), admired actress, married actor Thomas Teman 1834, widowed 1846, three daughters.

Ternan, Frances Eleanor
(1835–1913), child actress, opera singer, married T. A. Trollope
q.v.
1866, lived in Italy, first novel published by D, wrote many more.

Ternan, Maria Susanna
(1837–1904), child actress, singer, married Rowland Taylor 1863, left him 1873, became artist, journalist, traveller, writer.

Ternan, Ellen Lawless (Nelly)
(1839–1914), child actress, gave up career, married George Wharton Robinson 1876, son Geoffrey born 1879, daughter Gladys 1884.

Ainsworth, William Harrison
(1805–82), novelist, met D 1835, introduced him to publisher Macrone, illustrator Cruikshank. Friendship dwindled by 1850.

Andersen, Hans Christian
(1805–75), writer, admirer of D, stayed at Gad’s Hill 1857.

Austin, Henry
(?1812–61), architect, engineer, good friend of D from early 1830s, married D’s sister Letitia 1837, became Secretary to London Sanitary Commission.

Barrow, Mary
(?1792–1822), D’s aunt, known as Fanny, married [1] naval officer Allen [2] army surgeon Matthew Lamert, father of
James Lamert
, who finds job for D in blacking factory.

Barrow, Thomas Culliford
(?1793–1857), D’s uncle, employed by Navy Pay Office from age of eleven, leg amputated 1823, Head of Prize Branch, married 1824, son John Wylie Barrow (1828–85), settled New York.

Barrow, John Henry
(1796–1858), D’s uncle, married Kitty Collins 1817, left her to live with Lucina Pocock from 1828, ten children. Novelist, reporter, employed young D, who in 1845 sent him to India for
Daily News
. Daughter Emily known to D.

Barrow, Edward
(1798–1869), D’s uncle, parliamentary reporter, joined in theatricals with D, artist wife Janet Ross painted D. Member of Newspaper Press Fund from Jan. 1859.

Barrow, Frederick
, D’s uncle, daughter Rebecca born 1817, known to D, other Barrow daughters Jane, Sarah, Maria.

Beadnell, Maria
(1810–86), third daughter of George Beadnell, senior clerk in City bank, met D 1830, romance ended 1833, married Henry Winter 1845, renewed friendship with D 1855. Model for Dora in
David Copperfield
and Flora Finching in
Little Dorrit.

Beard brothers
: Sussex born.
Thomas
(1807–91), journalist, met D 1834, best man at his wedding, godfather to Charley, lifelong friend;
Francis
(1814–93), physician, became D’s doctor 1859.

Bentley, Richard
(1794–1871), printer then publisher, magazine proprietor, D was editor of
Bentley’s Miscellany
in which
Oliver Twist
was serialized, disputes over contracts for various books throughout 1838, parted company.

Berger, Francesco
(1834–1933), Charley’s Leipzig friend, wrote music for
The Frozen Deep
.

Berry, Mary
(1763–1852), and her sister Agnes, learned ladies and protégées of Horace Walpole, entertained D at their Twickenham house, Little Strawberry Hill, 1 July 1839.

Black, John
(1783–1855), editor
Morning Chronicle
, Liberal paper, employed D 1834, appreciated his outstanding gifts.

Blanchard, Samuel Laman
(1804–45), Liberal journalist, early friend, committed suicide.

Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of
(Marguerite Gardiner) (1789–1849), beauty, novelist, journalist, companion of Count D’Orsay
q.v.
, D met 1840. Her niece Marguerite Power protégée of D.

Boyle, Mary
(1810–90), well-connected literary lady, amateur actress, devoted to D from first meeting in 1850.

Bradbury, William
(1800–1869), with partner Frederick Evans
q.v.
, known to D from 1830s as printers for Chapman & Hall, became publishers of
Punch
1842,
Daily News
1846, D’s publishers 1844 to 1858 (Christmas books and novels) and part-owners of
HW
.

Brown, Mrs William
,
née
Hannah Meredith (?1805–78), companion to Miss Coutts
q.v.
, married Dr Brown 1844 (he died 1855), continued as Miss C’s companion.

Browne, Hablot Knight (‘Phiz’)
(1815–82), artist, fine illustrator of D’s work from 1836 to 1859, after which he was dropped and the friendship ended.

Buckstone, John
(1802–79), comic actor, playwright, lifelong friend of D, manager of Haymarket Theatre 1853–77, employed Ternans.

Bulwer Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton, first Baron Lytton
(1803–73), hugely successful, prolific novelist, playwright, known to D from 1837, worked with him and F to set up Guild of Literature and Art to assist writers. Changed his name from ‘Bulwer’ to ‘Bulwer Lytton’ 1844.

Burgess, Eliza
(1816–?), servant girl, brought up in workhouse, accused of infanticide, helped by D, tried at Old Bailey June 1840 and freed.

Carlyle, Thomas
(1795–1881), D met 1840, revered, dedicatee of
Hard Times
. Also his wife,
Jane Welsh Carlyle
(1801–66), cheerfully attended D’s Christmas parties.

Cattermole, George
(1800–1868), Norfolk squire’s son, antiquarian painter, illustrated
The Old Curiosity Shop
, lost touch with D in the 1850s, son Leonardo remembered D as the best of storytellers.

Céleste, Madame
(?1814–82), French actress, dancer, manager of Adelphi Theatre from 1844, well known to D, put on dramatized
A
Tale of Two Cities
. (See
Webster
)

Cerjat, W. W. F. de
(?–1869), Swiss friend of D from 1846, to whom he sent informative annual letters.

Chapman, Edward
(1804–80), publisher and bookseller with William Hall
q.v.
, published
Pickwick Papers
, bought back copyright of
Oliver Twist
from Bentley, continued with D until 1844, when D broke with firm, returning 1859.

Chapman, Frederic
(1823–95), cousin of Edward, knew D from 1845, took over Chapman & Hall in 1864 when Edward retired.

Charlton, Charles William,
and his wife
Elizabeth Culliford
(1781–1853), she D’s great-aunt, lodging-house keeper, he clerk at Doctors’ Commons, both helpful to D in youth.

Chateaubriand, François-René de
(1768–1848), writer, diplomat, visited by D in Paris 1847.

Chesterton, George Laval
(?–1868), Army officer, then reforming Governor Coldbath Fields Prison in Clerkenwell 1829–54. D met him in 1835, respected, later worked with.

Chorley, Henry
(1808–72), music critic, general reviewer, wrote for
AYR
, became family friend.

Church, Mary Anne
(1832–?), robbed employers 1850, sent by Tracey
q.v.
from Tothill Fields Prison to Miss Coutts’s Home 1851, caused ‘consistent botheration’, ejected April 1852; in 1855 she was well known as a prostitute, charged with stealing from a brothel.

Collins brothers
:
Wilkie
(1824–89), writer, from 1851 collaborated, acted, travelled with D;
Charles
(1828–73), artist, invalid, married Katey Dickens 1860.

Compton, Emmeline
,
née
Montague (?–1910), actress, D saw her debut as Juliet 1839, friend for many years, acted with him, left recollections.

Cooper, Louisa
, enters Miss Coutts’s Home from Magdalen Asylum April 1853, stayed two years, sent to Cape, returned 1856, bringing D ostrich egg, engaged to be married to an English gardener.

Coutts, Angela Burdett
(1814–1906), heiress, philanthropist, dear friend of D, who advised her on many charitable projects from early 1840s until 1858, when her disapproval of his treatment of Catherine ended their close association.
Martin Chuzzlewit
dedicated to her. Created Baroness 1871.

Cowden-Clarke, Mary
,
née
Novello (1809–98), Shakespeare scholar, writer, met D 1848, acted with and adored him, moved abroad 1856.

Cranstone, Frances
(1836–58), entered Miss Coutts’s Home 1853, expelled for trouble-making April 1854, died in Shoreditch Workhouse.

Cruikshank, George
(1792–1878), artist, friend of D, superb illustrator of
Sketches
by Boz
and of
Oliver Twist
, the plot of which he later claimed to have originated, without any justification.

De La Rue, Emile
, Swiss banker working in Genoa, and his English wife,
Augusta
, née Granet, friends of D in Genoa in 1844. De La Rue invited D to treat his wife for psychological disorders, and he agreed to do so by mesmerism, with only partial success.

Dilke, Charles Wentworth
(1789–1864), colleague of John Dickens at Navy Pay Office, saw D working blacking factory circa 1824. Editor
Athenaeum
1830s, D sent him
Sketches by Boz
for review.

Dolby, George
(1831–1900), managed D’s reading tours from 1866, true friend.

D’Orsay, Count Gédéon Gaspard Alfred de Grimaud
(1801–52), artist, gambler, dandy, illegitimate son of Napoleonic general, while living in London with his step-mother-in-law, Lady Blessington
q.v.
, met D 1836, to mutual delight. D’s fourth son named for him (and Tennyson). Debts obliged him to move to Paris 1849.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor
(1821–81), visited D in London 1862, recalled conversation in 1878.

Dumas, Alexandre
(1802–70), novelist, playwright, D supped with in Paris 1847, kept in contact.

Egg, Augustus Leopold
(1816–63), son of Piccadilly gun-maker, studied Royal Academy School, fine genre and historical painter. Friend of D from late 1840s, acted in theatricals, travelled abroad with him. Died in Algiers.

Eliot, George
(Marian Evans) (1819–80), novelist, admired from very first by D, cordial contact although she never wrote for his magazines.

Elliot, Frances
,
née
Dickinson (1820–98), heiress with rackety marital history introduced to D by Collins, persuaded D to intervene in her difficulties in 1860s, questioned him in vain about his private life.

Elliotson, John
(1791–1868), physician, a founder of University College Hospital, forced to resign 1838 after mesmerism displays, known to D from 1837, became his doctor, godfather to his son Walter.

Elton, Edward William
(1794–1843), actor, chairman Theatrical Fund, widower, drowned, leaving seven children. D raised large sums for their education and training, particularly impressed by eldest, Esther, who became teacher.

Evans, Frederick
(?1803–70), printing partner of Bradbury
q.v.
from 1830. Family friendship broken by D 1858. Daughter Bessie married Charley Dickens 1861, to D’s disapproval.