Mary Hogarth beautiful and light-hearted". When Robert Story visited the Hogarth household in 1836, he described Hogarth as "the fairest flower of spring". Dickens showed particular affection to Hogarth, and described her as "a close friend, an exceptional sister, a companion at home." It is believed that Hogarth was the first person to read "The Pickwick Papers" and "Oliver Twist", as Dickens valued Hogarth's input and feedback more than his wife's. In the early hours of 7 May 1837, after Hogarth had returned from a showing of "Is She His Wife?" at the St James's Theatre with the Dickens couple, she collapsed
Ian Hogarth Ian Hogarth Ian Hogarth is the co-founder and Chairman of Songkick. Hogarth studied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. Hogarth founded live music startup Songkick with friends Michelle You and Pete Smith in 2007. Smith and Hogarth met at Cambridge, Hogarth and You met in Beijing; they shared a love of live music and formed Songkick, which was part of the 2007 Y Combinator program in Boston. They chose to set up the company in London because it "is the gig capital of the world. London has more concerts than anywhere else." Hogarth and his fellow Songkick co-founders were