The Rag and Bone Shop
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0142002259 / Publisher: Penguin Books, November 2002
An intriguing debut historical novel presents a fictionaled account of the secret thirteen-year love affair between author Charles Dickens and actress Ellen Ternan, as told in the alternating voices of Dickens's sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth, mystery writer Wilkie Collins, and Ternan herself. A first novel. Reprint.
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At the height of his career, Charles Dickens's every move, appearance, and public utterance was pored over in the pubs and the press. His private life held, however, one enormous secret: his thirteen-year affair with Ellen Ternan, a childlike actress from a family of traveling players. Told in the alternating voices of Dickens's sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth; his friend, mystery writer Wilkie Collins; and Ellen Ternan herself, The Rag and Bone Shop reveals the warring demands of public propriety and private libertinism. Devotees of Dickens, Collins, and great historical fiction will be ensnared by this suspenseful and bewitching tale.
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