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emma_in_dreamDid you know Charles Dickens left his wife? Or rather, he forced her out of the house, told everyone she was mad, published a lengthy description of her saying she was crazy and that she was constitutionally incapable of loving her children, and kept the house, the kids, and his sister-in-law to look after them. This seems positively un-Victorian.
How I long for Catherine Dickens to have spent the rest of her life vivaciously enjoying herself at masked balls while writing best-selling novels under a nom-de-plume. Alas, there is no evidence that she did anything at all to fill in the long hours alone, with no children, no husband, no duties and presumably very few people who were willing to associate with an outcast. How did she fill in the time?
How I long for Catherine Dickens to have spent the rest of her life vivaciously enjoying herself at masked balls while writing best-selling novels under a nom-de-plume. Alas, there is no evidence that she did anything at all to fill in the long hours alone, with no children, no husband, no duties and presumably very few people who were willing to associate with an outcast. How did she fill in the time?
