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“Until now, most accounts of the break-up of Dickens’s marriage in 1858 have given his side of the story. However, a new cache of letters unearthed and analysed by a University of York professor tells it for the first time from the point of view of his abandoned wife.”

oh hey did y'all know that in 1858 when Charles Dickens was 45 he tried to have his wife institutionalized by falsely claiming she was insane & didn't love the ten children she had borne him, all so he could bang an 18 year old actress in his employ & this is has only really emerged since 2019

Letters reveal Charles Dickens tried to place his wife in an asylumwww.york.ac.uk Analysis of previously unseen letters has shed new light on Charles Dickens’s troubled relationship with his wife Catherine – revealing at one point he attempted to have her committed to a mental asyl...