Abstract
This chapter describes how Charles Dickens gave a Christening dinner at his home at Devonshire Terrace, January 3rd, 1849 after his story The Haunted Man, appeared for Christmas, 1848. Kate's eighth confinement was imminent but this did not seem to interrupt the lavish entertaining. Forster reports that among those present were the Mark Lemons, Evanses, Bradburys, Leeches, Stanfields, John Tenniel, Francis Topham, Frank Stone, Robert Bell and the Thomas Beards. These, together with Georgina, Kate, Charles, and possibly one of Charles' brothers, would make a dinner party of twenty and judging from Kate's “Menu for Twenty Persons,” the preparations must have been prodigious. Kate's baby, a sixth son, was born on January 16th and named after the great 18th-century novelist, Henry Fielding.
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