Despite her evident sanity, famous author Charles Dickens tried to get his wife admitted to an asylum. Letters discovered recently tell the story of his wife Catherine in her point of view.
The accusation comes in a letter from Edward Dutton Cook, Catherine’s next-door neighbour in Camden, north London, where she lived after her separation from Dickens. Dutton Cook was already a friend of Dickens’s eldest son Charley, and he and his wife Lynda made a close friendship with Catherine. As Catherine was dying, she told them more and more about how Dickens had behaved twenty years earlier, after he met the young actress Ellen Ternan and decided to break up their long, hitherto happy marriage.
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Image Credits: Harvard University; Daguerreotype of Catherine Dickens, c.1852
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