Charles Dickens Plotted to Send His Sane Wife to an Asylum
When you purchase through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . Being matrimonial to the priggish author Charles Dickens was definitely not the best of times . Long - veil letters reveal that Dickens sought to have his wife , Catherine , forcibly consigned to an institution — a outline that fell apart when Dr. found no grounds of genial illness in the woman ....