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Acclaimed in his lifetime for his remarkable literary career, Charles Dickens’ private life was wracked by dysfunction, scandal and the cruelty he inflicted on his wife and his children.



Portrait of Dickens, 1850




Catherine Hogarth Dickens, 1852




Gerorgina Hogarth and Dickens daughter, Mamie




Charles Dickens, in hat, with family




Grave of Charles Dickens, Westminster Abbey




Catherine Dickens and daughter’s grave, Highgate Cemetery, London