Little Known Facts About Charles Dickens

1. She was Worth Twelve of You, Charlie

Surprisingly, Catherine Dickens never bothered to refute the horrid slander which Dickens unleashed against her. She stayed loyal to him, despite his no longer deserving it. Upon her deathbed in 1879, she gathered a number of letters of correspondence between her and Dickens. She handed them over to her daughter, Kate, insisting that she deliver the, “to the British Museum—that the world may know [Charles] loved [her] once”. It’s become damn clear to us that Dickens needed three or four ghosts to give him a few good kicks in the pants, to put it politely.

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