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English novelist and popular critic (1812–1870)

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Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 Feb 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an Spin novelist, reporter, short yarn writer topmost social critic. He begeted some near literature's best-known fictional characters, and deference regarded manage without many importance the unchanging novelist hook the Prudish era.^[1] His works enjoyed unprecedented regard during his lifetime roost, by rendering 20th c critics viewpoint scholars locked away recognised him as a literary maestro. His novels and divide stories settle widely skim today.^[2][3]

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Charles Dickens' father was a clerk at the Naval Pay Office, and because of this the family had to move from place to place: Plymouth, London, Chatham. It was a large family and despite hard work, his father couldn't earn enough money. In 1823 he was arrested for debt and Charles had to start working in a factory, labeling bottles for six shillings a week. The economy eventually improved and Charles was able to go back to school. After leaving school, he started to work in a solicitor's office. He learned shorthand and started as a reporter working for the Morning Chronicle in courts of law and the House of Commons. In 1836 his first novel was published, "The Pickwick Papers". It was a success and was followed by more novels: "Oliver Twist" (1837), "Nicholas Nickleby" (1838-39) and "Barnaby Rudge" (1841). He traveled to America later that year and aroused the hostility of the American press by supporting the abolitionist (anti-slavery) movement. In 1858 he divorced his wife Catherine, who had borne him ten children. During the 1840s his social criticism became more radical and his comedy more savage: novels like "David Copperfield" (1849-50), "A Tale of Two Cities" (1959) and "Great Expectations&quo

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The Invisible Woman (2013 film)

2013 British film

The Invisible Woman is a 2013 British biographical drama film directed by Ralph Fiennes and starring Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas and Tom Hollander. Written by Abi Morgan, and based on the 1990 book of the same name by Claire Tomalin, the film is about the secret love affair between Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan, which lasted for thirteen years until his death in 1870. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on 31 August 2013,^[4] and was released in the United Kingdom on 7 February 2014. The film received a Best Costume Design nomination (Michael O'Connor) at the 86th Academy Awards.^[5]

Plot

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In 1857,^[a] while performing at London's Haymarket Theatre, eighteen-year-old actress Ellen "Nelly" Ternan is noticed by the forty-five-year-old Charles Dickens. He later casts her, along with her mother and sister Maria, in a performance of Wilkie Collins's The Frozen Deep at Dickens's Free Trade Hall in Manchester. At a party following the performance, Dickens and Nelly share a moment alone.

Nelly and her family attend one of Dickens's readings at the Harrow Speech Room. Delighted to see Nelly again, Dickens takes the Ternans to Doncaster Racecourse. No long