In 1857, [18 year-old Nelly Ternan, above] was spotted by Dickens performing at London's Haymarket Theatre.[citation needed] He cast her...in a performance of The Frozen Deep in Manchester in August 1857...Nelly (Ellen) took over the girl's part from Katey Dickens, Dickens's seventeen-year-old daughter. [2]
-Wikipedia
“I turned her over gently and placed my hands on her chest to calm her and keep her down. I looked into her face. Her eyes were dilated and wild, and she was screaming constantly. She repeated the words, ‘My husband, my father, and my brother!’ Then she would count to twelve and say ‘Hush!’
-The father, Dr. Manette, describing the examination of a patient (who died) and which would land him in the Bastille for the next 18 years.
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