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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. Birth and family life [ edit ]
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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 ...
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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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Ternan met Dickens in 1857, when she, her mother and sisters were actors in a play he was producing. Dickens was 45; Ternan was 18. Anxious to preserve his image as a pillar of Victorian morality ...
Mar 15, 2021 · I n 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 collapsed at Ellen ...
Dec 17, 2012 · As it happens, yes, because the exact nature of his secret relationship with a young actress, Ellen Ternan, remains almost entirely opaque, despite being the object of literary and biographical ...
