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What would the Twitterati have made of this Fiennes romance? (Dickens affair with Nelly Ternan)
UK Daily Mail ^
| May 17, 2012
| Baz Bamigboye
Posted on 05/18/2012 6:26:07 AM PDT by C19fan
Ralph Fiennes’s film about the secret love affair between Charles Dickens and a woman more than half his age is finally shooting. It was announced to great fanfare at the Cannes Film Festival a few years ago when Christine Langan, head of BBC Films, joined forces with producer Stewart Mackinnon to get Abi Morgan to adapt Claire Tomalin’s brilliant 1991 book The Invisible Woman. That book told of Dickens’s relationship with actress Nelly Ternan which started when she was 18 and he was 45.
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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: dickens; fiennes
The gorgeous Felicity Jones plays Nelly Ternan. Dickens destroyed his wife and mother of 11 children with this affair.
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posted on
05/18/2012 6:26:17 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
>> between Charles Dickens and a woman more than half his age
Oooh! How scandalous!
Mrs. Tick is more than half my age. In fact, she’s a little older than me. Does that mean we have somethin’ racy goin’ on? Cool!
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posted on
05/18/2012 6:28:43 AM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
To: C19fan
Well, Dickens, like most creative genuises, was no bargain as a father or a husband or a friend. But I do like his books!
To: miss marmelstein
Reminds me of Mel Gibson.
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posted on
05/18/2012 6:49:39 AM PDT
by
Mercat
To: C19fan
secret love affair between Charles Dickens and a woman more than half his age I think that they meant to say less than half his age.
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posted on
05/18/2012 6:50:20 AM PDT
by
iowamark
To: C19fan
Dickens Robert F. Kennedy Jr. destroyed his wife and mother of
11 his 4 children with
this affair.
Mary Richardson Kennedy was found hanged earlier this week - an incident the media is very quiet about.
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posted on
05/18/2012 6:52:09 AM PDT
by
Baynative
(REMEMBER: Without America there is no free world!)
To: C19fan
Yup! The MSM and Hollywood love glorifying this kind of thing...
Infidelity? SURE-that’s OK!!
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posted on
05/18/2012 6:55:51 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
To: miss marmelstein
Well, Dickens, like most creative genuises, was no bargain as a father or a husband or a friend. But I do like his books!
I agree. Occasionally, I see what appear to be thinly veiled defenses of his behaviour, especially in Hard Times, and also hinted at in David Copperfield.
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posted on
05/18/2012 6:56:08 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: Dr. Sivana
He does a complete hacket job on his poor wife in David Copperfield!
I’m looking forward to reading Claire Tomlin’s (sp?) new bio on him. I keep seeing it in Barnes & Noble and would love to buy it.
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