Table of Contents

Introduction; 1.The Mother - Elizabeth Dickens; 2. The Lover - Maria Beadnell; 3. The Wife and Her Sisters - Catherine, Marie and Georgina; 4. The Philanthropist - Angela Burdett Coutts; 5.The Mistress - Nelly Ternan; 6. Conclusion - The preoccupation with young women dying, possibility of underlying misogyny, the daughter Katey.

About the Author

Anne Isba read Italian and French at Somerville College, Oxford and has a doctorate in Victorian Studies. A former journalist, she is the author of Gladstone and Dante and Gladstone and Women, an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Keele and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.