Claire Tomalin's multi-award-winning story of the life of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens is a remarkable work of biography and historical revisionism that returns the neglected actress to her rightful place in history.
Claire Tomalin has written seven highly acclaimed biographies, and has won a host of prizes. Her Samuel Pepys was Whitbread Book of the Year in 2002. Her biography of Charles Dickens, published in 2011, was an international bestseller. A former literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times, she is married to the novelist and playwright Michael Frayn.
“Captivating. . . . An absorbing book about…a character who helps
to illuminate the life of a great artist and the life of her
times.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“As social history, literary criticism, and, not least, an
absorbing detective story, The Invisible Woman is a wonderful
book.” —Newsday
“Groundbreaking.” —The Guardian (UK)
“This is feminist biography at its best.” —Leon Edel
“Part social history, part detective story, wholly enthralling.”
—John Carey, The Sunday Times (London)
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