Installation at Charles Dickens Museum will show how wife of Victorian novelist was clever, affectionate and gifted at music
The talents of Charles Dickens’s wife, who he separated from and portrayed as an unfit mother despite them having 10 children together, are to be celebrated in an exhibition at her former home in London.
Catherine Dickens never made any public complaint about her husband’s treatment of her, which troubled even some of his closest friends. He first moved out of her bedroom and had the connecting door boarded shut, then formally separated from her, announcing in a newspaper advertisement in June 1858 that “some domestic trouble of mine of long standing” had been resolved.
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