Maria Ternan

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...

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.

FET and her husband travelled throughout Europe—often with Bice —and though they visited their respective families in England, their permanent home was the estate of Ricorboli at Florence. The next Ternan sister...