"The wife who has plagued him … & … is rather lunatical": A Contemporary Private Reference to the Dickens Scandal

IF 0.7 1区 文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES DICKENS QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI:10.1353/dqt.2023.a913286
William F. Long
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A short commentary by the poet Arthur Hugh Clough on the gossip surrounding the breakdown of the Dickens marriage in a letter to an American friend in June 1858 provides a glimpse of how it appeared to one literary Londoner not having a close personal acquaintance with the family. The information (and misinformation) Clough drew on appears to include material derived from Dickens's as then unpublished (later "violated") letter of 25 May. Unlike accounts transmitted to American newspapers by London correspondents which propagated stories concerning an actress, Clough's account mentions Georgina Hogarth as the subject of the "scandalous rumours." He thus tenders a version of the gossip which seems otherwise to have been largely transmitted orally. Clough's characterization of Catherine as "lunatical," well before Dickens's letter of 25 May with its reference to his wife's alleged "mental disorder," comprises the earliest known written reference to this aspect of Dickens's narrative.

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“困扰他的妻子……&……相当疯狂”:当代狄更斯丑闻的私人参考
摘要:1858年6月,诗人阿瑟·休·克拉夫在写给一位美国朋友的信中,对围绕狄更斯婚姻破裂的八卦进行了简短的评论,让我们得以一窥一位与狄更斯家族没有密切私人关系的伦敦文学家是如何看待这件事的。克拉夫引用的信息(和错误信息)似乎包括狄更斯5月25日未发表(后来被“违反”)的信中的材料。与伦敦记者向美国报纸报道有关女演员的故事不同,克拉夫的报道提到乔治娜·霍加斯是“诽谤性谣言”的主题。因此,他提供了一种似乎主要是口头传播的流言的版本。克拉夫对凯瑟琳的描述是“疯子”,早在狄更斯5月25日的信中提到他妻子所谓的“精神错乱”之前,这是已知最早的关于狄更斯这方面叙述的书面资料。
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