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Birth and family life. Ellen Ternan was born in Rochester, Kent, which directly adjoins the town of Dicken's childhood, Chatham. She was the third of four children; she had a brother who died in infancy and two sisters named Maria and Frances (later the second wife of Thomas Adolphus Trollope, the brother of Anthony Trollope ).
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Dec 25, 2014 · The relationship with Ellen Ternan was a secret he jealously guarded. Dickens was such a family man, and his relationship with his public was vitally important. If he was seen to be just as bad as ...
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Dec 10, 2020 · By 1857, when Charles Dickens met the young actress Ellen Ternan, ... Dickens’ daughter Katey confided the truth about her parents’ separation to a friend, Gladys Storey, ...
Feb 3, 2020 · 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. This is the untold story of Charles Dickens’s final...
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Feb 15, 2024 · When Dickens left Catherine for 18-year-old Ellen Ternan in 1858, Hogarth sided with the novelist and continued living with him until his death in 1870—28 years after she first moved into his...
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Mar 27, 2022 · Dickens met the Ternans, Maria, Fanny, Ellen, and their widowed mother, Frances, during rehearsals for Wilkie Collins' play The Frozen Deep in August 1857. Dickens and his amateur troupe had been performing the play using his daughters in the female roles but when the decision was made to take the play on the road, to Manchester, he decided to ...
Ternan family. Source: The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens Author(s): Michael SlaterMichael Slater. Frances Eleanor Ternan, mother of Ellen ternan, was born in Hull in 1802, her parents, John and Maria Jarman, both being members of ... ...
