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Mary Scott Hogarth (Edimburgo, Reino Unido, 26 de octubre de 1819 [nota 1] - Londres, Reino Unido, 7 de mayo de 1837 [nota 2] ) era la hermana de Catherine Dickens —cuyo apellido de soltera era Hogarth— y, por tanto, cuñada del escritor Charles Dickens.
Mary Scott Hogarth (26 October 1819 – 7 May 1837) was the sister of Catherine Dickens (née Hogarth) and the sister-in-law of Charles Dickens. Hogarth first met Charles Dickens at age 14, and after Dickens married Hogarth's sister Catherine, Mary lived with the couple for a year.
Mary Hogarth was the younger sister of Catherine Dickens, who came to live with the Dickenses when they moved here to 48 Doughty Street in March 1837. Six weeks later, Mary died suddenly, aged just 17. Her death was an enormous shock to both Catherine and Charles.
Escribió desde América a Forster diciéndole que sentía que tras su muerte, el espíritu de Mary había visitado las maravillas de la naturaleza en “múltiples ocasiones… desde que su afable rostro se evaporó de mi vista terrenal” (Forster, I, 171).
For his own, real-world children, Dickens used the name "Mary" for the first girl in the family, born 6 March 1838, just under a year after Mary Scott Hogarth's death. One may argue, as do both Slater and Ackroyd, that Dickens's obsession with his memories of Mary severely limited his capacity to understand and graph the female psyche.
9 de may. de 2021 · But two such “highly personal and private” tokens of affection – one containing a lock of Charles Dickens’s hair and the other of his sister-in-law, Mary Hogarth – are actually proof of something...
29 de sept. de 2021 · Dickens’s sister-in-law, Mary Hogarth was seventeen. She was living with Charles and Catherine at the time. Mary was a favorite with the couple and was like a little sister to Charles.
