The Other DickensCatherine Hogarth, who came from a cultured Scots family, married Charles Dickens in 1836, the same year he began serializing his first novel. Together they traveled widely, entertained frequently, and raised ten children. In 1858, the celebrated writer pressured Catherine to leave their home, unjustly alleging that she was mentally disorderedunfit and unloved as wife and mother. Constructing a plotline nearly as powerful as his stories of Scrooge and