Without Lifting A Finger

Wilkie Collins , a photo by mrglennmoore on Flickr. Had a cameo in The Invisible Woman . Somewhat a playmate of Dickens. Spotlighted him "playing house" with his "intimate" (i.e. Caroline Graves).

Felicity Jones , a photo by Pilkipics on Flickr. Saw her last night for the first time -- with Ralph Fiennes in The Invisible Woman . She plays Ellen (Nelly).

Catherine Thomson "Kate" Dickens ( née Hogarth ; 19 May 1815 – 22 November 1879) was the wife of English novelist Charles Dickens , and the mother of his ten acknowledged children. * The separation is sparsely alluded to in the film The Invisible Woman . Dickens publishes an article explaining his POV and all or most of it is quoted in the film: Some domestic trouble of mine, of long-standing, on which I will make no further remark than that it claims to be respected, as being of a sacredly private nature, has lately been brought to an arrangement, which involves no anger or ill-will of any kind, and the whole origin, progress, and surrounding circumstances of which have been, throughout, within the knowledge of my children. It is amicably composed, and its details have now to be forgotten by those concerned in it... By some means, arising out of wickedness, or out of folly, or out of inconceivable wild chance, or out of all three, this trouble has been the occasion ...

Ellen Lawless Ternan (3 March 1839 – 25 April 1914), also known as Nelly Ternan or Nelly Robinson , was an English actress who is mainly known as the mistress of Charles Dickens . Life Ellen Lawless Ternan was born in Rochester, Kent . She was the third of four children, including a brother who died in infancy and a sister named 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. Ternan made her stage debut in Sheffield at the age of three, and she and her two sisters were presented as "infant phenomena". Ternan was considered the least theatrically gifted of the three sisters, but she worked extensively in the provinces, particularly after her father died in 1846. In 1857, she was spotted by Dickens performing at London's Haymarket Theatre . He cast her, along with her mother and one of her sisters, in a p...