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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 Sarah Pruitt Updated: Dec 10, 2020. Photos: Bettman Archive; Hulton Archive/Getty Images. By 1857, when Charles Dickens met the young actress Ellen Ternan, he had been one of England’s most...
Mar 27, 2022 · Ellen Ternan 1858 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?
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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...
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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...
Dec 27, 2007 · Invisible Woman - The Life of Ellen Ternan. December 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.
Mar 15, 2021 · Lucinda Hawksley. In 1990, Claire Tomalin published The Invisible Woman, a biography of the actress Ellen Ternan, best known today for her secret relationship with Charles Dickens, which spanned the last thirteen years of his life. In her book, Tomalin suggested a new theory about the death of Dickens: that when he died in 1870, he may have ...
