The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens

The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
ISBN-10
0307822397
ISBN-13
9780307822390
Series
The Invisible Woman
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
368
Language
English
Published
2012-08-29
Publisher
Vintage
Author
Claire Tomalin

Description

Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857; she was 18, a hard-working actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep, and he was 45, the most lionized writer in England. Out of their meeting came a love affair that lasted thirteen years and destroyed Dickens’s marriage while effacing Nelly Ternan from the public record. In this remarkable work of biography and scholarly reconstruction, the acclaimed biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys and Jane Austen rescues Nelly from the shadows of history, not only returning the neglected actress to her rightful place, but also providing a compelling portrait of the great Victorian novelist himself. The result is a thrilling literary detective story and a deeply compassionate work that encompasses all those women who were exiled from the warm, well-lighted parlors of Victorian England.

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