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

Claire Tomalin

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#1175 of 3,809 books · #424 in Biography & Memoir

Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography (1990).

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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Publisher
Vintage Books
ISBN-13
9780345803979
Topics
Charles Dickens's secret love affairVictorian-era women's social statusLiterary biography

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