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050 10 $aPR4582$b.T66 1992
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100 1 $aTomalin, Claire.
245 14 $aThe invisible woman :$bthe story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens /$cClaire Tomalin.
250 $a1st Vintage books ed.
260 $aNew York :$bVintage Books,$c1992.
300 $axvi, 333 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: New York : Knopf, 1991.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 317-321) and index.
505 0 $aPt. 1. 'N' -- 'Agreeable and beautiful talents' -- Family saga (1790-1845) -- Little orphans (1845-1855) -- Gaslight fairies (1856-1857) -- Pt. 2. The amateur: Dickens in 1857 -- Manchester, Doncaster and scandal (1857-1858) -- Mornington crescent (1858-1862) -- Vanishing into space (1862-1865) -- Fanny and Maria get married (1863-1866) -- The year of the diary (1867) -- 'This life is half made up of partings' (1868-1870) -- Pt. 3. Another life begins (1870-1876) -- The schoolmaster's wife and the foreign correspondent: Margate, Rome, Africa -- Nelly tells -- Southsea -- Geoffrey -- Myths and morals -- A postscript: the death of Dickens.
520 $aThis volume is a biography of Ellen "Nelly" Ternan, who was for the last thirteen years of Charles Dickens's life, was his secret obsession and intimate companion. She was an actress but within a few years of meeting Dickens she left the stage and disappeared from public view. Her disappearance was considered essential for the protection of Dickens's good name with a public that idolized him. Nelly's three lives - as child actress, as hidden love and as ultra-respectable wife and mother - span the whole of the Victorian and Edwardian ages. Until now her story has been considered only in the light of its impact on Dickens. For the first time, the author has chosen to look at Nelly's story from her own point of view. This book is at once biography, literary criticism and social history, and contains an original and extraordinary account of the theatrical world that both nurtured Nelly and held Dickens in thrall throughout his life.
600 10 $aDickens, Charles,$d1812-1870$xRelations with women.
600 10 $aTernan, Ellen Lawless,$d1839-1914$xRelations with men.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aTomalin, Claire.$tInvisible woman.$b1st Vintage Books ed.$dNew York : Vintage Books, 1992$w(OCoLC)894752560
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