Michael Slater - The Great Charles Dickens Scandal

Copyright 2012 by Michael Slater

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Slater, Michael.
The great Charles Dickens scandal / Michael Slater.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 9780300112191 (cl : alk. paper)
1. Dickens, Charles, 18121870Relations with women.
2. Novelists, English19th centuryBiography.I. Title.
PR4582.S45 2012
823'.8dc23
[B]

2012023963

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10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

For John Grigg

Dickens photographed by Herbert Watkins in 1858

Ellen Ternan

Catherine Dickens

Georgina Hogarth by Augustus Egg c.1850

Georgina Hogarth photographed in 1906

Sir Henry Fielding Dickens giving a reading from his father's works

Mr and Mrs George Wharton Robinson and their son Geoffrey

C. E. Bechhofer Roberts

J. W. T. Ley

Illustration drawn by Pisani for The Sunday Graphic, 25 February 1934

Thomas Wright

Canon William Benham

Walter Dexter

Gladys Storey photographed by Bassano in 1939

Kate Perugini in 1923 drawn by Gladys Storey

Kate Perugini as Hon. Life President of the Dickens Fellowship

Edgar Johnson on the cover of TheSaturday Evening Post, 10 January 1953

Ada Nisbet

Cover of Dickens and the Scandalmongers, 1965

Sir Felix Aylmer

William J. Carlton

Cover of Dickens Incognito (1959)

Katharine M. Longley holding a portrait of Ellen Ternan

Cartoon drawn by Richard Willson to accompany a review of The Invisible Woman in The Sunday Times, 4 November 1990

Nos 2 and 7 are reproduced by permission of the Senate House Library, University of London, no. 14 by permission of the National Portrait Gallery, no. 18 by courtesy of the Dickens Project, University of California, no. 19 by permission of the University of Oklahoma Press, nos 11 and 23 are from the author's private collection, and no. 24 is reproduced by permission of the artist; all other images are reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of the Charles Dickens Museum.

Dickens photographed by Herbert Watkins in 1858

Ellen Ternan about 1860

Catherine Dickens in later years

Georgina Hogarth by Augustus Egg, about 1850

Georgina Hogarth photographed in 1906

Sir Henry Fielding Dickens giving a reading from his father's works

Mr and Mrs George Wharton Robinson and their son Geoffrey (born 1879)

C. E. Bechhofer Roberts

J. W. T. Ley

Illustration drawn by Pisani for The Sunday Graphic, 25 February 1934

Thomas Wright

Canon William Benham

Walter Dexter

Gladys Storey photographed by Bassano in 1939

Kate Perugini in 1923 drawn by Gladys Storey

Kate Perugini as Hon. Life President of the Dickens Fellowship

Edgar Johnson on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, 10 January 1953

Ada Nisbet

Cover of Dickens and the Scandalmongers, 1965

Sir Felix Aylmer