Author(s): Claire Tomalin

Fiction

Winner of the 1990 James Tate Memorial Prize for Biography, this work lays bare a literary mystery, the true story of the secret 13-year relationship between Charles Dickens and the young actress Ellen Ternan. The author also wrote "The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft", which won a Whitebread Prize in 1974, "Shelley and His World" and "Katherine Mansfield - A Secret Life".