The Dickens Children's Gallery

Charles Culliford Boz Dickens

Mary and Kate Macready Dickens

Walter Landor Dickens

Francis Jeffrey Dickens

Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens

Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens

Henry Fielding Dickens

Grave of Dora Annie Dickens

Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens

Catherine never saw Charles again.  She occasionally saw her children,
although she was not allowed to attend the wedding of her daughter
Kate in 1860.  Kate said:  'My father was a wicked man - a very wicked
man…. My father was not a gentleman - he was too mixed to be a
gentleman… My father did not understand women …. he was not
a good man, but he was not a fast man, but he was wonderful.'
And, of her mother, 'We were all very wicked not to take her part;
Harry does not take this view, but he was only a boy at the time,
and does not realise the grief it was to our mother, after having
all her children, to go away and leave us.  My mother never
rebuked me.  I never saw her in a temper.  We like to think
of our geniuses as great characters - but we can't.'

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