Fiennes as Charles Dickens lights up invisible narrative

By Sarah Thomas
April 16 2014 - 3:00am
<i>The Invisible Woman </i>stars Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens and Felicity Jones as Nelly Ternan.
<i>The Invisible Woman </i>stars Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens and Felicity Jones as Nelly Ternan.

It was the celebrity scandal of the day. In 1858, amid swirling rumours about Charles Dickens and an actress 27 years his junior, the writer sent a brutal statement to The Times announcing his separation from wife Catherine, with whom he had 10 children, and condemned the gossip as ''abominably false''.

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