Ellen Ternan

Dickens , by now a long-standing friend of the Ternans, introduced FET to the Trollopes; she had admired Theodosia Trollope, Bice's mother, for her talents in music and poetry. She was also extremely fond

Frances Eleanor Ternan (later FET ), her sisters Maria and Ellen , and her mother Frances , performed with Dickens in Wilkie Collins 's The Frozen Deep, which opened at the New Free Trade Hall in Manchester.

Charles Dickens had at one time noted FET 's literary talent, and he serialised Mabel's Progress in 1867 in All The Year Round.Isa Blagden insinuated in a letter to Robert Browning

WMT was close to both of his surviving daughters, and was particularly proud when Anne 's first publication, the article Little Scholars, which appeared anonymously in the Cornhill Magazine. He was a sociable...

FET and her two sisters, Maria and Ellen or Nelly, were close to their mother and to each other, and were considered well-behaved and dutiful. All three performed on stage together when the girls were...

Dickens , on the other hand, though fond of both the Trollopes and the Ternans, apparently confided that he did not in the least care for Fanny, whom he judged, with evident misgivings, to be...

In 1867, the year after their marriage, FET and her husband separated for a while. They publicly said little of their troubles; they may have had disagreements over the scandal surrounding Ellen Ternan and Charles Dickens

His relationship with his wife rapidly declining, CD began in 1857 an affair with actress Ellen Ternan , who was twenty-seven years his junior. While the precise nature of their relationship has never been determined...

FET died, aged nearly eighty, at Southsea near Portsmouth, where she had been living with her sister Ellen .