![]() ![]() When Charles go the Chronicle’s office later that morning and tells fellow reporter William Aga about the tragedy, he hears a strange story. Various physicians are called in throughout the night, but in the early hours of the next morning she dies a painful death. Hogarth assist the hostess in getting the young woman, who is her daughter Christiana, to her bedroom. Lady Lugoson’s guests seem unable to cope with the situation, so Charles, Kate, and Mr. Hogarth walk over to investigate and come upon a strange scene–about a dozen people, including several servants, are standing aimlessly in a room while in front of the fireplace lies a young girl apparently coming out of a fainting episode. Their dinner is interrupted by several screams that seem to come from the neighboring house, which belongs to the family of the late Lord Lugoson. This marks the first time he meets Catherine (Kate) Hogarth, the oldest daughter in the family, and he is immediately smitten by her looks and personality. Determined not to live the life his father led, with two terms of confinement in debtors’ prisons, Charles was working hard and determined to make his mark in society.Īs A Tale of Two Murders opens, it is 1835 and Charles has been invited for dinner at the home of his employer, the Evening Chronicle‘s co-editor. ![]() ![]() Before Charles Dickens was a world-renowned novelist, he was a young journalist working in London. ![]()
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