Charles Dickens in Love
Robert Garnett, "Charles Dickens in Love"
English | ISBN: 1605983950 | 2012 | 256 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1605983950 | 2012 | 256 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In celebration of the bicentennial, here is Charles Dickens as you have never seen him before: An intimate and engaging portrait of the great author and the women he loved
When Charles Dickens died in 1870 he was the best-known man in the English-speaking world―the pre-eminent Victorian celebrity, universally mourned as both a noble spirit and the greatest of novelists. Yet when the first person named in his will turned out to be an unknown woman named Ellen Ternan, only a handful of people had any idea who she was, and her conspicuous presence in his will was a mystery. Of his romance with Ellen, Dickens had written, “it belongs to my life and probably will only die out of the same with the proprietor,” and so it was―until his death she remained the most important person in his life.
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