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
The Line of Beauty Feddens' house, knowing that they are absent for a wedding and runs into Penny who reveals that she is going to continue her affair with Gerald. Nick leaves the Feddens house for a final time and muses on the HIV test he is having done the next day and imagines that the results will be positive. The title of the book refers to the Line of Beauty — the double "S" of the ogee shape, a shape which "swings both ways". William Hogarth in his "The Analysis of Beauty" describes how beauty itself is embodied in the shape, which protagonist