Introduction: constructing Catherine Dickens

"The mind of woman occasionally asserts its powers": Catherine Hogarth among enlightened patriarchs, 1815-1835

Becoming Galatea: courtship and marriage, 1835-1837

Interlude I. "The girls Hogarth": Catherine and Mary

"Their voices, Mr. Dicken's imperative": mesmerized, 1837-1842

"Their voices, Mrs. Dickens's expostulatory": disentranced, 1843-1847

"Richer in that respect": overbearings, 1848-1852

Interlude II: "Catherine Georgina": or, what's in a name?

The meaning of "our": sleights of hand, 1853-1858

"As if she were sole and unmarried": separation, 1858-1870

Interlude III. "Forget me not": Catherine and Helen

Last wills and last words: widowhood, 1870-1879

Afterword: "Suttee business"

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