Dickens : Terror to the End (2003)
Sub-Genres - Biography, Literary Studies, Social History |
Run Time - 60 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis
Conclusion. Host Peter Ackroyd charts the final 12 years of Dickens' life, beginning in 1858, the "year of the great stink" in fetid, disease-ridden London. It's captured in such novels as "Bleak House." Dickens' personal life, his marriage in particular, was no less bleak, and he finally banished---but didn't divorce---his wife. He also began a "secret life" with a young actress named Ellen Ternan, and took refuge in the adulation he received at public readings of his works. But they took a physical toll, and as his health declined, he "pushed himself too hard, too far," Ternan (Natasha Little) says. And he died of a stroke on June 9, 1870. Anton Lesser plays Dickens.
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writer, life-story, career-retrospective, literary-criticism, literature, dramatization, re-enactment, Victorian