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In 1885 the newly reinvented Nelly/14707/">Nelly (Felicity Jones) is a happily married mother and school teacher. Yet, she’s haunted by the past. At 18, she met Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes), then 45 and at the height of his career. Nelly/14707/">Nelly was a budding actress who had appeared in a play he’d adapted – and the two embarked on a relationship that had to be kept secret, given that he was married with 10 children.

Based on Claire Tomalin's nonfiction book The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly/14707/">Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens.