When Charles Dickens died in 1870 he was the best-known man in
the English-speaking world the pre-eminent Victorian celebrity. 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.
She was not the first woman who had fired his imagination. As a
young man he had fallen deeply in love with Maria Beadnell. A few
years later he was stunned by the sudden death of his young
sister-in-law, Mary Scott Hogarth, and worshiped her memory for the
rest of his life.
Using hundreds of primary sources, Charles Dickens in Love
narrates the story of the most intense romances of Dickens s life,
and shows how his novels both testify to his own strongest
affections and serve as memorials to the young women he loved all
too well, if not always wisely."
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