The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (Vintage) - Softcover

Tomalin, Claire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804172129 ISBN 13: 9780804172127

Publisher: Vintage Books, 2013

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"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)

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)"

About the Author:

Claire Tomalin is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, includingThomas Hardy and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, which won the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. She has previously won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Whitbread Biography Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0804172129
• ISBN 13: 9780804172127
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 333