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Ellen Lawless Ternan (3 March 1839 – 25 April 1914), also known as Nelly Ternan or Nelly Wharton-Robinson, was an English actress known for her association with the author Charles Dickens .
Dec 10, 2020 · By 1857, when Charles Dickens met the young actress Ellen Ternan, he had been one of England’s most famous men for the past two decades.
Mar 27, 2022 · Forget who killed Edwin Drood, Dickens scholars and amateur enthusiasts have been trying to solve Dickens' last and greatest mystery since his death in 1870. Namely, what exactly was his relationship with Ellen Lawless Ternan?
In 1953, when future biographer Claire Tomalin was studying English literature at Cambridge, she came across intriguing references to a figure named Ellen “Nelly” Ternan, a stage actress of ...
Ellen Lawless Ternan (3 March 1839 – 25 April 1914), also known as Nelly Ternan or Nelly Wharton-Robinson, was an English actress known for her association with the author Charles Dickens.
Dec 24, 2014 · Charles Dickens loved doing elaborate home theatricals. In one, The Frozen Deep, he met the actress Ellen Ternan, who became his mistress when he was 45 and she was 18.
Feb 3, 2020 · But his personal life was complicated. Separated from his wife and living in a huge country mansion in Kent, the novelist was in the thrall of his young mistress, Ellen Ternan.
Dec 3, 2000 · Why did Dickens hide his heroism? Because the author's traveling companions were his 25-year-old mistress, Ellen Ternan, and her mother.
Dec 27, 2007 · She is the shadowy figure in Dickens’s life, the woman who shared the last thirteen years before his early death. His biographers tried to erase her, their letters to each other were burned, but still the story of Charles Dickens and Ellen Ternan could not be obliterated from history.
Dec 17, 2012 · The nature of his secret relationship with the young actress Ellen Ternan bears on how we read his homages to home and the dualities of his characters.
