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Charles Dickens married Catherine Hogarth on 2nd April, 1836, when he was an upcoming writer and reporter. Soon after marriage, he tasted spectacular success with The Pickwick Papers and in ten years, was the foremost writer of his time. Catherine was the mother of his ten children, his hostess, she accompanied him on his American tour. Yet, twenty-one years after they wed, Charles Dickens very publicly separated from her, denouncing her as an unfit mother and wife. He removed her from his home, his life, and the lives of his children. He never saw her again, not even when their son, Walter, died at the age of twenty-three in faraway India. His allegations about his wife and his unhappy marriage were works of fiction, as successful and enduring as the rest of his works. The real cause of the separation was an eighteen-year-old actress, Ellen Ternan, who later became his mistress. On her deathbed, Catherine gave her daughter letters Charles had written to her and said, "Give these to the British Museum, that the world may know he loved me once." Outside the Magic Circle is a fictionalized account of Catherine's life after she was plucked out of her familiar world and thrown to the w

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Author

Heera Datta

Publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781508919643

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.83 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14