What year did Charles Dickens and his wife separate?

Answer 1

He never divorced Catherine. Divorce, at that time, literally took an Act of Parliament and was outrageously expensive. He maintained separate establishments until Catherine died. She, BTW, never stopped hoping CD would come back to her and according to legent, was asking for him as she died.

Answer 2

Catherine became overwhelmed with the duties of being a wife of a famous man and mother of 10 children. Dickens blamed Catherine for his having to support so many children and indicated that she was not his intellectual equal.

Answer 3

Charles Dickens' parents did not divorce or ever, to common knowledge, legally separate. They lived separately, briefly, however, when Dickens' father was imprisoned for debt, but the family soon joined him in Marshalsea Prison and remained with him until his release.

Answer 4

Charles Dickens and his wife separated in 1858 after 22 years of marriage. They had 10 children together before their separation.

Answer 5

Charles Dickens married his wife, Catherine Hogarth Dickens, in 1836. Catherine Dickens was the mother of ten of Charles Dickens' children.

Answer 6

He married Catherine on April 2, 1836, when he was aged 24.

Answer 7

he was married for 22 years to Catherine Hogarth but then ran away with a younger woman

Answer 8

1858