Mr & Mrs Charles Dickens: Her Story...
So the world may know he loved me once
After twenty-two years of marriage, the world-famous author banished Mrs Dickens (Catherine) from their home with their nine children and wrecked her reputation to protect his own when he fell in love with an eighteen-year-old actress.
This is Kate's story: a poignant self-portrait of a woman struggling to achieve peace of mind by making sense of a marriage that defined, but nearly destroyed her. Sifting through her husband's letters after his sudden death she relives the happy times they shared but also speaks up for herself to expose the darker side of the man the world reveres.
On her deathbed, Kate asked her daughter to give Charles's letters to the British Museum 'so the world may know he loved me once.' This novel fulfils her dying wish and restores her to history as more than a famous author's discarded wife. It bestows on Kate the respect, dignity, agency and voice she was denied in life.
Join the book launch: Authors Talk at the Charles Dickens Museum
