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Ellen Ternan was born in Rochester, Kent, which directly adjoins the town of Dickens' 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). Her parents, Thomas Lawless Ternan and ...
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.. To his legions of fans, who gobbled up best-selling ...
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 ...
Feb 3, 2020 · Ellen Ternan, the young actress who became Charles Dickens’s mistress. Wikimedia. Dickens was careful to keep his love affair private. Documentary evidence of his relationship with Ternan is ...
Ellen "Nelly" Ternan, in 1870, was a figure lost to history. Charles Dickens Museum. In 1953, when future biographer Claire Tomalin was studying English literature at Cambridge, she came across ...
Dec 27, 2007 · Ellen Lawless Ternan was born on March 3, 1839 in Rochester, England, coincidentally a city that had much meaning for Charles Dickens. She was born into a theatrical family of long standing. Her mother, father and grandmother had all been actors; her mother, Fanny Ternan, had even appeared on the London stage, with the great actor William ...
Dec 24, 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 ...
