num_pages: 384
description: Now a major motion picture directed by Ralph Fiennes co-starring Fiennes and Felicity Jones with Michelle Fairley Kristin Scott Thomas and Tom Hollander: the unforgettable story of Charles Dickens's mistress Nelly Ternan and of the secret relationship that linked them.When Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857 she was 18: a professional actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep. He was 45: a literary legend a national treasure married with ten children. This meeting sparked a love affair that lasted over a decade destroying Dickens's marriage and ending with Nelly's near-disappearance from the public record. In this remarkable work of biography Claire Tomalin rescues Nelly from obscurity not only returning the neglected actress to her rightful place in history but also giving us a compelling and truthful account of the great Victorian novelist. Through Dickens's diaries correspondence address books and photographs Tomalin is able to reconstruct the relationship between Charles and Nelly bringing it to vivid life. The result is a riveting literary detective storyand a portrait of a singular woman.
language: English
title: The Invisible Woman
publisher: Vintage