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From Catherine Dickens: Outside the Magic CircleOn Promo Price of 99 cents Today and Tomorrow
"I did not correct her about me being the mother of nine living children. At that moment, the children I had carried in sickness and brought forth in pain and hardship seemed like phantom children. They had been born but had drifted away like wraiths.
Only little Dora seemed real. Beautiful, delightful Dora, whom the Merciful Lord had taken away when she was only eight months old."
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"A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man." ~ Charles Dickens. Charles was lucky, his wife Catherine wasn't.
“Give these letters to the British Museum so that the world may know he loved me words,” Catherine told her daughter when she was on her deathbed.
Charles Dickens forced a legal separation on his wife after twenty-two years of marriage and ten children, denouncing her as unfit wife and mother. She had to leave her home and children, the youngest being only six. He never saw her again, not even when their son died at the age of twenty-three in faraway India. His allegations about her were works of fiction; the real reason was his infatuation with a young actress.
Outside the Magic Circle is Catherine’s story, told in her own words, as she tries to cope up with the pain and transition from being wife to discarded woman, busy mother to a woman living all by herself. It is told in her voice; sometimes reminiscing, at other times baffled, confused, hurt, angry. It has her tears, her love, and her quest for the meaning of her life, and marriage.