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Dickens' Secret Lover

 

UK 2008, 48 minutes
Dir. Sarah Aspinall
Rating: [PG]
Genres: Television, Drama, Documentary

Topics: Period - 1800s, Educational Resource, Literary Arts.

 

Aroview: Intelligent docu-drama that uncovers the torrid love life of Charles Dickens, who embarked on a clandestine affair with an actress young enough to be his daughter.

Presented by an engagingly hammy Charles Dance and with commentary from Peter Ackroyd amongst others, this is a compelling insight both into the life of the immortal writer and of morality in Victorian England.

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