Kate Perugini

Following his death Charles Collins (Wilkie 's brother), with his wife (the former Kate Dickens ) and family, were the main sources of support for ATR and her sister. Between 1,500 and 2,000 mourners...

MAD 's relationships with her aunts have been recorded in various ways. She was named after her oldest paternal aunt, Mary Mamie Dickens and writes warmly about her in her 1897 essay A Child's Memories...

Her father's closest friends were from the literary elite: the ProctersAnne Procter and the CarlylesJane Welsh Carlyle . ATR was friends with Dickens 's daughters, particularly Kate Dickens .George Smith was from the 1840s a...

Dickens 's daughter Kate recalled this as her father's favourite among MEB 's novels, and George Moore liked it so much he represented his heroine in A Mummer's Wife (1885) as reading it. It may...

ATR and her sister occupied an apartment which adjoined that of their grandparents. Friends in Paris for the season included Adelaide Kemble Sartoris (with whom they travelled), the Storys, and the Brownings. ATR and her...