Actor-director Ralph Fiennes brings Dickens' love life into focus
Felicity Jones as Nelly Ternan and Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens in The Invisible Woman.
PHOTO BY DAVID APPLEBY
FILM No one reads Uncle Tom's Cabin today — Harriet Beecher Stowe's enormously popular novel that almost single-handedly tilted public opinion against slavery enough to support the Civil War — for anything but historical-footnote interest. Yet fellow 19th-century celebrity author Charles Dickens, who had nearly as direct and significant a reformist influence across the Atlantic, is still ubiquitous.Read more »