A shocking side of Dickens and his relationship with his wife, Catherine—from a Facebook post by History Timelines. Excerpt below.
…”As Catherine’s body showed the toll of years of childbearing, Dickens grew cold. He blamed her—bizarrely—for the size of their family. He told friends she was inadequate. He grew distant, critical, and then cruel. He had the connecting door between their bedrooms boarded shut, a physical wall to mirror what had already grown between them.
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The moralist. The one who wrote about the sordid conditions of the Victorians. The poverty. The marginalized. The outcasts. The victims of injustice.
I never suspected that the Dickens described above was, in reality, the exact opposite.
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