The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens - Softcover

"Captivating. . . . An absorbing book about...a character who helps to illuminate the life of a great artist and the life of her times." --Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"
"As social history, literary criticism, and, not least, an absorbing detective story, "The Invisible Woman" is a wonderful book." --"Newsday"
"Groundbreaking." --"The Guardian" (UK)
"This is feminist biography at its best." --Leon Edel
"Part social history, part detective story, wholly enthralling." --John Carey, "The Sunday Times" (London)

Captivating. . . . An absorbing book about a character who helps to illuminate the life of a great artist and the life of her times. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
As social history, literary criticism, and, not least, an absorbing detective story, The Invisible Woman is a wonderful book. Newsday
Groundbreaking. The Guardian (UK)
This is feminist biography at its best. Leon Edel
Part social history, part detective story, wholly enthralling. John Carey, The Sunday Times (London)"

Claire Tomalin was born in London in 1933. She has worked in publishing and journalism all her life, becoming literary editor first of the New Statesman and then of the Sunday Times, which she left in 1986. She is the author of, among other books: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; Shelley and His World Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life; The Invisible Woman and the extraordinarily successful biography of Samuel Pepys. Other books written for Penguin are: Jane Austen: A Life and a collection of memoirs entitled Several Strangers.