The invisible woman : the story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
by Tomalin, Claire
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- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679738193
- ISBN 13
- 9780679738190
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About This Item
New York: Vintage Books, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This 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.
Synopsis
Claire Tomalin is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies including Thomas Hardy and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self , which won the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. She has previously won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, the Whitbread First Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Whitbread Biography Award.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The invisible woman : the story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
- Author
- Tomalin, Claire
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0679738193
- ISBN 13
- 9780679738190
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
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