Catherine Dickens

CD , novelist, died from a stroke at Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent, his primary residence since his separation from his wife .

His relationship with his wife rapidly declining, CD began in 1857 an affair with actress Ellen Ternan , who was twenty-seven years his junior. While the precise nature of their relationship has never been determined...

Elizabeth's father, Mary Angela's other grandfather, Frederick Mullet Evans, co-founded the printing firm Bradbury and Evans , whose innovative use of a steam-driven rotary press brought it clients including the Illustrated London News and...

CD married Catherine Hogarth , daughter of friend and Morning Chronicle editor George Hogarth (where Dickens worked as a reporter). The first instalment of The Pickwick Papers had been published two days earlier.

CD and his wife Catherine were formally separated.

During the same year CD began dabbling in mesmerism, practising on his wife by magnetizing her into hysterics, and then finally to sleep. His later regular mesmerism of another woman, Augusta de la Rue ...