In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan, with whom he has a thirteen-year-long affair that ends with her pregnancy stillbirth. After announcing his "amicable" separation from his wife Catherine, Dickens becomes Nelly's secret mistress until her marriage to Oxford graduate George Wharton-Robinson in 1876, who is unaware of their past relationship.
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