Word: katey
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...same idealistic whole-souled way that he had once adored Maria Beadnell." The object of his passion was fair-haired Actress Ellen Ternan, whom Dickens discovered backstage modestly weeping because her role obliged her "to show so much leg." Dickens established Ellen in a house near London. His daughter Katey wrote: "More tragic and far-reaching in its effect was the association of Charles Dickens and Ellen Ternan and their resultant son than that of Nelson and Lady Hamilton and their daughter. My father was like a madman. He did not seem to care a damn what happened...