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Ellen Ternan
British actress (1839–1914)
Ellen Lawless Ternan (3 March 1839 – 25 April 1914), also known as Nelly Ternan or Nelly Wharton-Robinson, was an English actress known for her relationship with the older Charles Dickens.
Birth and family life
Ellen Ternan was born in Rochester, Kent, which directly adjoins the town of Dickens' childhood, Chatham.
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She was the third of four children; she had a brother who died in infancy and two sisters named Maria and Frances (later the second wife of Thomas Adolphus Trollope, the brother of Anthony Trollope). Her parents, Thomas Lawless Ternan and Frances Eleanor Ternan (née Jarman), were both actors of some distinction.[1]
Theatre
Ternan made her stage debut in Sheffield at the age of three, and she and her two sisters were presented as "infant phenomena".
Ellen was considered the least theatrically gifted of the three sisters, but she worked extensively in the provinces, particularly after her father died in O