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Who was Ellen to Charles Dickens?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Ellen Ternan, the actress, was Dickens' friend and protege and possibly his mistress. There was some speculation that she bore Dickens a son, but this has never been substantiated. After his death, she received an unrevealed sum of money and later married. She almost never spoke of Dickens.

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