The Dickens family tree

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Illustrations viii
5. Acknowledgements x
6. A note on language xii
7. The Dickens family tree xiii
8. The Hogarth family tree xiv
9. Introduction 1
10. 1 The Hogarths and Dickens become in-laws 13
11. 2 Friends and flirting (1836–42) 26
12. 3 Dickens and his ‘little Pet’ (1842–7) 47
13. 4 A ‘lively young damsel’ (1848–51) 76
14. 5 Dickens’s mid-life crisis (1852–7) 92
15. 6 Loyalty and disloyalty (1857–8) 111
16. 7 ‘Poor Miss Hogarth’ (1858–63) 132
17. 8 ‘His own decision will be the best’ (1864–70) 159
18. 9 ‘A hard, hard trial’ (1870–1917) 179
19. 10 Aftermath 215
20. Who’s who 233
21. Notes 249
22. Bibliography 282
23. Index 292
24. Plates 299