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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.
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...
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. How does the family feel...
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 ...
Can you list the top facts and stats about Ellen Ternan? 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 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 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.
