Meet Catherine Dickens, Hungarian descendent of the famed Charles Dickens
Writers
14/12/2020 9.51am
Hungary is probably the last place you’d expect to find a relative of Charles Dickens, Britain’s famed 19th-century novelist. In this way, Catherine Dickens is a delightful surprise, as we find her sitting in one of the charming cottages she and her late husband bought and remodelled in Csákberény, just an hour outside Budapest.
“There are
160 of us,” says Catherine, referring to
the family tree which stems from
Dickens. “I recognise myself in his energy style, and I’ll always be a Dickens.
But you do want to make your own mark on the world,” she adds.